dubber n.2
the mouth.
Mysteries of London vol. 2 142: Mum your dubber. Keep your mouth shut. | ||
Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn) 134: DUBBER, the mouth; ‘mum your dubber,’ hold your tongue. | ||
Sl. Dict. |
In phrases
silent.
Life’s Painter 136: Aye, do, why should you be dubber-mum’d? there’s no hornies, traps, scouts, nor beak-runners amongst them. | ||
‘Rowling Joey & Moll Blabbermums’ in Corinthian in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 42: [as 1789]. |