Mump
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /mʌmp/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Mump is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To mumble, speak unclearly.
Meaning
(ambitransitive) To mumble, speak unclearly.
More Meanings
- To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
- (intransitive) To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
- To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
- To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
- To be sullen or sulky.
- (ambitransitive) To nibble.
- (obsolete) A grimace.
Example Sentences
He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]
It remained necessary to make a shift at bearing yourself like a man; not mumping, not moping.
Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling, Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]
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.
Word Forms
- mumps
- mumping
- mumped
Synonyms for mump
Depending on context, synonyms include cadge, sponge, beg, blag, leech, mooch.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include measles, rubella, mumble, murmur, mutter, drumble.
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