Pronunciations
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/mʌmp/
Verb
To mumble, speak unclearly.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
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Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling, Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]
To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
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He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]
To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
Usage- Intransitive
To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
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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.
To be sullen or sulky.
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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.
To nibble.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
Noun
A grimace.
Usage- Obsolete