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Gumming

noun
1.
Ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth).  Synonym: mumbling.



Gum

verb
(past & past part. gummed; pres. part. gumming)
1.
Cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum.
2.
Grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty.  Synonym: mumble.
3.
Become sticky.
4.
Exude or form gum.



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"Gumming" Quotes from Famous Books



... assistant, still gumming and pasting his slips with punctilious regard to duty, had been following his master's ...
— In Luck at Last • Walter Besant



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