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Mum-chance   Listen
adjective
Mum-chance  adj.  Silent and idle. (Colloq.) "Boys can't sit mum-chance always."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mum-chance" Quotes from Famous Books



... grain of sense in your head. Don't sit there mum-chance, man! Speak up and tell your mother not to be a fool. You are no child; you know your father, and that, if given one chance in a hundred to act perversely, he'll take it as sure as fate. For heaven's sake persuade your mother to use common caution and ...
— Hetty Wesley • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch



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