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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



... of the men were on their feet now, mumbling, waving their soiled fists. Certain mysterious movements were significant to Conrad. Like a flash he had Koppy round the waist and was pressing a small automatic into ...
— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan
... everything save the fortifications is being suffered to crumble away in order that the spirit of M. Viollet-le-Duc alone may pervade it and it may subsist simply as a magnificent shell. As the leases of the wretched little houses fall in, the ground is cleared of them; and a mumbling old woman approached me in the course of my circuit, inviting me to condole with her on the disappearance of so many of the hovels which in the last few hundred years (since the collapse of Carcassonne ...
— A Little Tour in France • Henry James
... large, whitewashed, and crowded with figures in glass cases and ex voto offerings. The lousy-looking, dressed-up dolls, life size and tinselly, that stood in the glass cases; the blood-streaked Jesus on the crucifix; the mouldering, mumbling, filthy peasant women on their knees; all the sense of trashy, repulsive, degraded fetish-worship was too much for her. She hurried out, shrinking from the contamination of ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... explain, so she turned to the stove while mumbling to herself the doubts she had over the sanity of the women-folks of this queer family—excepting ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... yourself, to keep health, to secure education and culture, in order that you may have the larger, better, wealthier self to use in service than in unending ascetic exercises, prayers, devotions, meditations, mumbling, or visions of ...
— Levels of Living - Essays on Everyday Ideals • Henry Frederick Cope


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