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Mum-chance \Mum"-chance`\, a.
Silent and idle. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
Boys can't sit mum-chance always. --J. H. Ewing. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Mum-chance
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