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Mumble   /mˈəmbəl/   Listen
verb
Mumble  v. t.  (past & past part. mumbled; pres. part. mumbling)  
1.
To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. "Peace, you mumbling fool." "A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself."
2.
To chew something gently with closed lips.


Mumble  v. t.  
1.
To utter with a low, inarticulate voice.
2.
To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth. "Gums unarmed, to mumble meat in vain."
3.
To suppress, or utter imperfectly.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Mumble" Quotes from Famous Books



... looked at John for a moment, and then tried to mumble something, that the boys could not understand. After a few attempts he fairly shrieked out: "How ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island • Roger Thompson Finlay
... after Flagg had marched away to the big house on the ledges. The crowd made way for the new drive boss; those in his path stared at him with interest; mumble of comment followed as the men closed in behind him. When he sat down in a corner of the tavern office and lighted his pipe his subalterns showed him deference by leaving him to himself. That isolation gave Landlord Brophy his ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day
... German among themselves, but those having a limited knowledge of French frequently availed themselves of that language in order that their guest might understand them. Those who could only mumble a few words, repeated them to an accompaniment of amiable smiles. All were displaying an amicable desire to propitiate the ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... in; There, with a thumb to keep her place She'd read, with stern and wrinkled face. Her mild eyes gliding very slow Across the letters to and fro, While wagged the guttering candle flame In the wind that through the window came. And sometimes in the silence she Would mumble a sentence audibly, Or shake her head as if to say, 'You silly souls, to act this way!' And never a sound from night I'd hear, Unless some far-off cock crowed clear; Or her old shuffling thumb should turn Another page; and ...
— Modern British Poetry • Various
... in a position to make a move any old way from here. There isn't one chance in ten of his coming around the corner; and if he does make a show of doing that, why we can be sitting here, playing mumble-de-peg, or something like that, just as if we didn't care whether school kept ...
— The Aeroplane Boys Flight - A Hydroplane Roundup • John Luther Langworthy


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