mumps

1. The dialect noun mump meant 'grimace'; and the use of its plural mumps for the disease is thought to have been originally an allusion to the distorted expression caused by the swollen neck glands.
2. mum, mumble, mummer => the syllable mum, representing an 'indistinct sound made through closed lips' => mump 'to whine like a beggar, sulk' => mump "a grimace" => mumps (plural of mump).
3. The infectious disease probably so called in reference to swelling of the salivary glands of the face and/or to painful difficulty swallowing.
4. 谐音“麻婆死、麻婆腮”------麻婆得了腮腺炎死了。
5. mum + p + s => 妈妈怕腮 => 妈妈怕得腮腺炎。

mumps 腮腺炎

来自mump,含混的说话声，-s,复数后缀。用于指腮腺炎。

mumps

mumps: [16] The dialect noun mump meant ‘grimace’; and the use of its plural mumps for the disease is thought to have been originally an allusion to the distorted expression caused by the swollen neck glands. Mump itself is presumably related to the verb mump ‘sulk’ [16], and belongs to a family of words (including also mumble [14]) based on the syllable mum, representing an ‘indistinct sound made through closed lips’ (mum ‘silent’ [14] itself, as in ‘keep mum’, comes from this source, as does mummer [15], originally ‘mime actor’).
=> mum, mumble, mummer

mumps (n.)

type of contagious disease, c. 1600, from plural of mump "a grimace" (1590s), originally a verb, "to whine like a beggar" (1580s), from Dutch mompen "to cheat, deceive," originally probably "to mumble, whine," of imitative origin. The infectious disease probably so called in reference to swelling of the salivary glands of the face and/or to painful difficulty swallowing. Mumps also was used from 17c. to mean "a fit of melancholy."

1. The child has the mumps.

这孩子患了腮腺炎.

2. Mumps is a children's disease.

腮腺炎是一种儿童疾病.

3. Measles, mumps and whooping cough are spreading again because children are not being vaccinated.

因为孩子们没接种疫苗，麻疹、腮腺炎和百日咳又蔓延开来。

4. She was bed - ridden with the mumps for weeks on end.

因为腮腺炎她接连卧床好几星期.

5. Poor Dick has gone down with mumps.

可怜的迪克得了流行性腮腺炎.