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Definition of Mumbling
1. Noun. Indistinct enunciation.
2. Noun. Ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth).
Generic synonyms: Chew, Chewing, Manduction, Mastication
Derivative terms: Gum, Mumble
Definition of Mumbling
1. a. Low; indistinct; inarticulate.
Definition of Mumbling
1. Verb. (present participle of mumble) ¹
2. Noun. An act in which someone mumbles something ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mumbling
1. mumble [v] - See also: mumble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mumbling
Literary usage of Mumbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong by Alfred Ayres (1882)
"... foggy, mumbling thickness of articulation which characterizes the cockney,
and is not unfrequently affected by Englishmen of a better class. ..."
2. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1840)
"... praying in gibberish, and mumbling of beads—had he heard an old woman say her
prayers in Latine, their sprinkling of holy water, and going a procession, ..."
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