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Definition of Mumping
1. mump [v] - See also: mump
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mumping
Literary usage of Mumping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... Fond affectation Bents an ape, and mumping: ... Omit the I in babilon, and
all is right. Sat. ii, b. S, p. 218 Befits an ape, and mumping ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"In the reprint of Mansion's Satires by J. Bowie (1764) we read, Fond affectation
Befits an ape, and mumping ... 219 Befits an ape, and mumping ..."
3. Four Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France by Edmund Burke, Edward John Payne (1892)
"... and patches,' with all it's mumping cant, from the inhospitable door of Cannibal
Castle— ' Where the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"On Dec. 2ist (St. Thomas's Day), the old women go round to the gentry and farmers
to receive presents in kind. This is called mumping, and is done by decent ..."
5. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Beggars are called the "mumping Society." " Л parcel of wretches hopping about
by the ... mumping Day. St. Thomas's Day, ? In Warwickshire the term used was ..."
6. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"TO hint, to aim at, S. "I know your meaning by your mumping;" S. Prov. Kelly, p.
... Ts may speak plainer, lass, gin ye incline, As, by your mumping, ..."
7. A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester by John Drummond Robertson (1890)
"This is called mumping, and is done by decent people who would not beg. [Hund,
of Berk.] [Selsley.] " They had no way left for getting rid of this mendicant ..."
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