mumps

• n. [內科] 流行性腮腺炎；慍怒；生氣

來自mump,含混的說話聲，-s,複數後綴。用於指腮腺炎。

mumps

mumps: [16] The dialect noun mump meant ‘grimace’; and the use of its plural mumps for the disease is thought to have been originally an allusion to the distorted expression caused by the swollen neck glands. Mump itself is presumably related to the verb mump ‘sulk’ [16], and belongs to a family of words (including also mumble [14]) based on the syllable mum, representing an ‘indistinct sound made through closed lips’ (mum ‘silent’ [14] itself, as in ‘keep mum’, comes from this source, as does mummer [15], originally ‘mime actor’).
=> mum, mumble, mummer

mumps (n.)

type of contagious disease, c. 1600, from plural of mump "a grimace" (1590s), originally a verb, "to whine like a beggar" (1580s), from Dutch mompen "to cheat, deceive," originally probably "to mumble, whine," of imitative origin. The infectious disease probably so called in reference to swelling of the salivary glands of the face and/or to painful difficulty swallowing. Mumps also was used from 17c. to mean "a fit of melancholy."

1. The child has the mumps.

這孩子患了腮腺炎.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. Mumps is a children's disease.

腮腺炎是一種兒童疾病.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

3. Measles, mumps and whooping cough are spreading again because children are not being vaccinated.

因為孩子們沒接種疫苗，麻疹、腮腺炎和百日咳又蔓延開來。

來自柯林斯例句

4. She was bed - ridden with the mumps for weeks on end.

因為腮腺炎她接連臥床好幾星期.

來自辭典例句

5. Poor Dick has gone down with mumps.

可憐的迪克得了流行性腮腺炎.

來自辭典例句