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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.





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"Mumble" Quotes from Famous Books



... you are, Killeny Boy, high-strung but reasonable," he continued to mumble as Kwaque helped to roll him ...
— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London
... you?" she said. "'Tis but a mumble, his little tongue is not nimble enough for clearness, but he says it his pretty best. 'Tis Mother Anne, he says—'tis ...
— A Lady of Quality • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... to mumble, Gray sat motionless, keenly conscious, meanwhile, of that other presence closing in upon him from the rear. He simulated a violent start ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... upon the second floor, and it was from the central of these that the sinister sounds were issuing, sinking sometimes into a dull mumble and rising again into a shrill whine. It was locked, but the key had been left on the outside. Holmes flung open the door and rushed in, but he was out again in an instant, with his hand ...
— Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... "Hear ye! hear ye! hear ye!" and ends, "All those of you having just cause for complaint draw near and ye shall be heard." However, you would have thought it was of no import here. Custom and indifference had allowed it to sink to a mumble. A third bailiff guarded the door of the jury-room; and in addition to these there were present a court clerk—small, pale, candle-waxy, with colorless milk-and-water eyes, and thin, pork-fat-colored hair and beard, who ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser


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