The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word MUMPS
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More clues leading to the result MUMPS
- Addition to letter after mother’s disease
- Silent addendum conveying Scotsman’s sulks
- Swellings, start of plague? What often precedes the word going round
- Pressure on parent with son’s disease
- Footnote on parent getting childhood disease
- Complaint upper-class politician put in document
- Parent’s admitted positive disease
- Mother, I nearly forgot disease!
- Infectious disease mother’s keeping quiet
- Mothers keeping quiet — it’s infectious
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What does MUMPS mean?
MUMPS noun- A grimace.
- To mumble, speak unclearly.
- To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
- To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
- To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
- To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
- To be sullen or sulky.
- To nibble.
- A cube of peat.
- A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.
- A gloomy or sullen silence.