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shtum; shtoom; stumm adjective quiet; saying nothing UK Anglicised phonetic spelling of synonymous German stumm which, it is presumed, reached England through Yiddish.- Some people in the nick make themselves very bizzie [sic] all the time and think they are very cunning, but I think it’s much better to keep shtoom, and to prove my point I came home on the earliest day I possibly could. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 12, 1958
- [W]e very properly stayed stumm and said nothing. — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 105, 1962
- Terry turned to Arthur. “What have you been up to, Arthur?” “Shtum, Terry. Very, very shtum”. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 59, 1984
- Russell kept shtoom. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 26, 1997
- Don’t try to be clever. Just keep stumm. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 141, 2002
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