Mismumble
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Mismumble is a verb meaning To mumble the wrong words.
Meaning
To mumble the wrong words.
Example Sentences
In choir and cloister, gathering up dropped Syllables, mismumbled words dislodged From the liturgy by sinful clerics.
He was dictating dialogues between two American boys, and forcing his students to learn to mismumble them; just such expressions as we have all, no doubt, heard American boys use to each other daily.
In a side remark intended for me, and which struck me like a shaft, Culpepper, as vain a fellow as ever mismumbled an author's lines, remarked to Miss Hatch that an elephant would stretch his chain to reach a bonbon.
Word Forms
- mismumbles
- mismumbling
- mismumbled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include misutter, mistalk, misdictate, misvocalize, misword, misvoice.
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