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5 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands
originCirca 1600, from mump (“grimace”, noun), compare mump (verb), most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0