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Mumble   /mˈəmbəl/   Listen
verb
Mumble  v. t.  (past & past part. mumbled; pres. part. mumbling)  
1.
To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. "Peace, you mumbling fool." "A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself."
2.
To chew something gently with closed lips.


Mumble  v. t.  
1.
To utter with a low, inarticulate voice.
2.
To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth. "Gums unarmed, to mumble meat in vain."
3.
To suppress, or utter imperfectly.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Mumble" Quotes from Famous Books



... therefore, no help for it; I felt like a stranger in Jerusalem, and resolved to mumble a bit of a prayer as well as I could. I need not say it was short, but I doubt very much whether it was appropriate, for all sorts of thoughts passed through my head, and I felt as if all the bees in this world were buzzing about my ears. Of course I had to shut my eyes; I knew ...
— My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War • Ben Viljoen
... the old miser, obstinate as are the half-fuddled, began to mumble, 'I came not here to drink, O Ukleet, but to make a bargain; and my bags be here, and I like not yonder veil, nor the presence of yonder Vizier, nor the secresy of this. Now, by the Prophet and that interdict of ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... "white folks" church on Sundays. They were seated in the rear of the church. The white minister would arise and exhort the slaves to 'mind your masters, you owe them your respect.' An old Christian slave who perceived things differently could sometimes be heard to mumble, "Yeah, wese jest as good as deys is only deys white and we's black, huh." She dare not let the whites hear this. At times meetin's were held in a slave cabin where some "inspired" slave led ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Florida Narratives • Works Projects Administration
... obdurate iron, and severed the bands that bruised and held her white wrists. Even then she could not speak, though she smiled a little, faintly and forlornly and gratefully. She struggled to say one word, but it resolved itself into a cacophonous and inarticulate mumble, ...
— Phantom Wires - A Novel • Arthur Stringer
... stale moralities, Sir Preacher, from your desk you mumble? Why rail against the great and wise, And tire us with your ...
— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray


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