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mump

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
14
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/mʌmp/

Definition of mump

9 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To mumble, speak unclearly.
    “Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling, Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]”
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verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To mumble, speak unclearly.
    “Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling, Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]”
  2. To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
    “He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]”
  3. (intransitive)To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
  4. To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
  5. To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
    “Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants here; and then went mumping with a sore leg in America, canting, and whining, and complaining of faction, which represented them as friends to a revenue from the colonies.”
  6. To be sullen or sulky.
    “The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.”
    “It remained necessary to make a shift at bearing yourself like a man; not mumping, not moping.”
  7. (ambitransitive)To nibble.

noun

  1. (obsolete)A grimace.
  2. (UK, dialectal)A cube of peat; a spade's depth of digging turf.

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Etymology

Perhaps borrowed through obsolete Dutch mompen (“to cheat, swindle, deceive”), according to Kroonen, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *mump- (“to stain”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mm̥bʰ-neh₂- Also akin to German mimpfeln (“to…

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Perhaps borrowed through obsolete Dutch mompen (“to cheat, swindle, deceive”), according to Kroonen, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *mump- (“to stain”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mm̥bʰ-neh₂- Also akin to German mimpfeln (“to mumble”), Icelandic mumpa (“to take into the mouth”). See also English mum. While Kroonen claims Ancient Greek μέμφομαι (mémphomai, “I blame, accuse”) and the Germanic forms are reconcilable and related, Beekes rejects this, stating that Germanic -p- cannot here correspond to Greek -φ- and that this etymological connection is not widely considered reliable.

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