A recent addition, meaning silent. From Yiddish and German.
I saw this in an article in The Guardian. Here it is in context:
Russia’s president keeps understandably schtum about his “special military operation”.
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Re: schtum
I guess everyone's keeping mum on comments here.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
Re: schtum
German "stumm" is "mute", or "dumb" as in (now not politically correct) "deaf and dumb". A slightly different connotation.
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