mum

“The citizens are mum, and speak not a word.”

“[Vladimir Putin] has serious climate problems. And he has been mum on his willingness to do anything.”

““Come here, friend,” sternly from the doctor. “Now I give you the way inside if you’ll promise to keep it mum.””

“Mum, then, and no more.”

“Ahab has that that’s bloody on his mind. But, mum; he comes this way.”

“I wish Mum and Dad didn't argue so much.”

““Wy, mum,” said Mr. Weller, “I don’t think you’ll see a many sich, and that’s the truth. But if my son Samivel vould give me my vay, mum, and only dis-pense vith his—might I wenter to say the vurd?” / “What word Mr. Weller?” said the housekeeper, blushing slightly. / “Petticuts, mum,” returned that gentleman, laying his hand upon the garments of his grandson. “If my son Samivel, mum, vould only dis-pense vith these here, you’d see such a alteration in his appearance, as the imagination can’t depicter.””

“[H]e axed if wer stock o' coals was nearly done. I telled him it was, an' we was ill set to get more—but you know mum I didn't think o' him helping us—but howsever, he sent us a sack o' coals next day; […]”

“"Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly."”