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Mum's the word is a popular English idiom.It is related to an expression used by William Shakespeare, in Henry VI, Part 2. [1]The word "mum" is an alteration of momme, which was used between 1350 and 1400 in Middle English with very close to the same meaning, "be silent; do not reveal".
Keeping Mum is a 2005 British black comedy film co written and directed by Niall Johnson and starring Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith and Patrick Swayze. It was produced by Isle of Man Film , Azure Films and Tusk Productions, and was released in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2005, by Summit Entertainment .
The game involved silence or bluff (the first syllable, "mum", is related to the phrase "keep mum"). A version played with cards was sometimes identified as "mumchance-at-cards". [1] The word can also mean mummery. Mumchance was played at the court of Henry VIII of England. [2]
Young Housewife, oil painting on canvas by Alexey Tyranov, currently housed at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg, Russia (1840s). A housewife (also known as a homemaker or a stay-at-home mother/mom/mum) is a woman whose role is running or managing her family's home—housekeeping, which may include caring for her children; cleaning and maintaining the home; making, buying and/or mending ...
The keeping of a mistress in Europe was not confined to royalty and nobility, but permeated down through the social ranks, essentially to any man who could afford to do so. Any man who could afford a mistress could have one (or more), regardless of social position.
Preparing traditional holiday foods, such as gingerbread men, for family gatherings is a form of kinkeeping.. Kinkeeping is the act of maintaining and strengthening familial ties.
According to the manufacturer's web-site, "The MUM brand owes its name to a nurse of the inventor, who was nicknamed "Mum". [2] Another source claims that the brand was named after the term "mum" from the phrase "Mum's the word", meaning to keep silent. [1] Mum was originally sold as a cream in a jar and applied with the fingertips.
A working parent is a father or a mother who engages in a work life. Contrary to the popular belief that work equates to efforts aside from parents' duties as a childcare provider and homemaker, it is thought [by whom?] that housewives or househusbands count as working parents. [1]