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Definition of Mumblers
1. mumbler [n] - See also: mumbler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mumblers
Literary usage of Mumblers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Better Speech: A Textbook of Speech Training for Secondary Schools by Charles Henry Woolbert, Andrew Thomas Weaver (1922)
"... those who are too lazy to be distinct are a pest; while those who do not know
the right way of pronouncing are to be pitied. The mumblers say ..."
2. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1829)
"... mouthers, mumblers, clutterers, squeakers, chanters, and mongers in monotony ;
nor that the schools of singing are constantly sending abroad those great ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The island of religious hypocrites, inhabited by sham saints, tellers of beads,
mumblers of are maria», and friars who lived by begging. ..."
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