mumps
noun/mʌmps/
/mʌmps/
[uncountable]- a disease, especially of children, that causes painful swellings at the sides of the face and under the earsTopics Health problemsc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: from obsolete mump ‘grimace, have a miserable expression’.
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