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mump

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4 lettersPronunciation /mʌmp/Sorted mmpuStarts with MEnds with P0 clues
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Definitions

  1. To mumble, speak unclearly.

Word origin

Perhaps borrowed through obsolete Dutch mompen (“to cheat, swindle, deceive”), according to Kroonen, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *mump- (“to stain”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mm̥bʰ-neh₂- Also akin to German mimpfeln (“to mumble”), Icelandic mumpa (“to take into the mouth”). See also English mum.

Used in a sentence

  • Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling, Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]
  • He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]
  • 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.

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