deaf-mute

deaf-mute (not comparable)

1. (now offensive) Unable to hear or speak.

• deaf and dumb

deaf-mute (plural deaf-mutes)

1. (now offensive) A person who is unable to hear or speak.
   • 1959 September, K. Hoole, “The Middlesbrough-Newcastle route of the N.E.R.: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 417:

     This buckling was first noticed by a deaf-mute who was walking over a bridge across the line and he pointed it out to the driver of a steamroller which happened to be passing.

• blind
• deaf
• mute

• “deaf-mute”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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