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Word: Mump
Speech Type: Verb
late 16th century (in an earlier sense). Apparently from an imitative base of Germanic origin. Compare Dutch mompen to mumble (rare, poetic), German † mumpfen to chew with a full mouth, Icelandic mumpa to cackle, to mutter, murmur, mumpra to eat greedily, to mumble, to distort the mouth, Norwegian regional mompe, mumpe to chew with a full mouth, stuff oneself
To assume a demure, melancholy, or sanctimonious expression; to be silent and sullen; to sulk, mope.
To grumble, complain peevishly. Now often in "to mump and moan".
To utter indistinctly or inarticulately, as if with toothless gums; to mumble, mutter. Also with out.
- mamp
- mumph
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