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mumu

4 letters · 2 distinct letters

mumu is in Nectary’s accepted word list, but we don’t have a definition for it yet.

Word history

History of muumuu

Borrowed from Hawaiian muʻumuʻu, from muʻumuʻu (“to be cut off; to be shortened”, verb), probably because the garment is a short sleeved and often calf length version of the floor length holoku or Mother Hubbard dress which has long sleeves and originally a train.

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Rarer than once in ten million words.
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