Meaning

(ambitransitive) To mumble, speak unclearly..

Definitions by Sense

1. (ambitransitive) To mumble, speak unclearly.
2. To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
3. (intransitive) To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
4. To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
5. To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
6. To be sullen or sulky.
7. (ambitransitive) To nibble.
8. (obsolete) A grimace.

Example Sentences

Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling, Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]

He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]

Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants here; and then went mumping with a sore leg in America, canting, and whining, and complaining of faction, which represented them as friends to a revenue from the colonies.

The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.

It remained necessary to make a shift at bearing yourself like a man; not mumping, not moping.

Word Forms

• mumps
• mumping
• mumped

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