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Mumbling   /mˈəmbəlɪŋ/  /mˈəmblɪŋ/   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.


adjective
Mumbling  adj.  Low; indistinct; inarticulate.





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"Mumbling" Quotes from Famous Books



... first what this means, we ask respectfully if she feels at all ill? "Ah, poor fellows! poor fellows!" she sighs in answer, "obliged to carry all your baggage on your own backs!—very hard! poor lads! very hard, indeed!" And the good old soul goes away groaning over our evil plight, and mumbling something which sounds very like an assurance that she has got no money to ...
— Rambles Beyond Railways; - or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot • Wilkie Collins
... to God for food, but it did not come as promptly as their necessities seemed to demand. They searched for Thorhall for three half-days, and found him on a projecting crag. He was lying there, and looking up at the sky, with mouth and nostrils agape, and mumbling something. They asked him why he had gone thither; he replied, that this did not concern any one. They asked him then to go home with them, and he did so. Soon after this a whale appeared there, and they captured it, and flensed it, and no one could tell ...
— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various
... grown boy in one of my classes who did not open his lips properly when he spoke. So I asked him to prop his mouth open with a piece of stick and then talk. I made him do it until he learned to speak much more clearly. A famous Greek orator, named Demosthenes, who had a habit of mumbling his words, trained himself to speak clearly by putting pebbles in his mouth and then reciting in a ...
— The Child's Day • Woods Hutchinson
... congratulated himself on his discretion, for he caught a glimmer of light at the edge of a window shade in the courthouse, saw several indistinct figures congregated at the side door, outside. He slipped behind a tool shed at the side of the track, and crouching there, watched and listened. A mumbling of voices reached him, but he could distinguish no word. But it was evident that the men outside were awaiting the reappearance of one of their number who had ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
... this place for the outcries of astonishment and marvel which were never lacking. Then Jed went on, mumbling his toothless gums in delight over ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield


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