Mumble




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Mumble \Mum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mumbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mumbling.] [OE. momelen; cf. D. mompelen, mommelen, G.
mummelen, Sw. mumla, Dan. mumle. Cf. Mum, a., Mumm,
Mump, v.]

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.
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Peace, you mumbling fool. --Shak.
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A wrinkled hag, with age grown double,
Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
--Otway.
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2. To chew something gently with closed lips.
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Mumble \Mum"ble\ (m[u^]m"b'l), v. t.

1. To utter with a low, inarticulate voice. --Bp. Hall.
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2. To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth.
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Gums unarmed, to mumble meat in vain. --Dryden.
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3. To suppress, or utter imperfectly.
[1913 Webster] Mumbledy peg
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mumble
n 1: a soft indistinct utterance
v 1: talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice [syn: mumble,
mutter, maunder, mussitate]

2: grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great
difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his
food" [syn: mumble, gum]
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mumble


1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to
enunciate, or the speaker has not thought it out. Often
prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance to
get into a long discussion. "Don't you think that we could
improve LISP performance by using a hybrid reference-count
transaction garbage collector, if the cache is big enough and
there are some extra cache bits for the microcode to use?"
"Well, mumble ... I'll have to think about it."


2. Yet another metasyntactic variable, like foo.


3. Sometimes used in "public" contexts on-line as a
placefiller for things one is barred from giving details
about. For example, a poster with pre-released hardware in
his machine might say "Yup, my machine now has an extra 16M of
memory, thanks to the card I'm testing for Mumbleco."


4. A conversational wild card used to designate something one
doesn't want to bother spelling out, but which can be
glarked from context. Compare blurgle.


5. [XEROX PARC] A colloquialism used to suggest that further
discussion would be fruitless.

(1997-03-27)

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mumble
interj.


1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to enunciate, or
the speaker has not thought it out. Often prefaces a longer answer,
or indicates a general reluctance to get into a long discussion.
"Don't you think that we could improve LISP performance by using a
hybrid reference-count transaction garbage collector, if the cache is
big enough and there are some extra cache bits for the microcode to
use?" "Well, mumble ... I'll have to think about it."


2. [MIT] Expression of not-quite-articulated agreement, often used as
an informal vote of consensus in a meeting: "So, shall we dike out
the COBOL emulation?" "Mumble!"


3. Sometimes used as an expression of disagreement (distinguished
from sense 2 by tone of voice and other cues). "I think we should buy
a {VAX}." "Mumble!" Common variant: mumble frotz (see frotz;
interestingly, one does not say `mumble frobnitz' even though `frotz'
is short for `frobnitz').


4. Yet another metasyntactic variable, like foo.


5. When used as a question ("Mumble?") means "I didn't understand
you".


6. Sometimes used in `public' contexts on-line as a placefiller for
things one is barred from giving details about. For example, a poster
with pre-released hardware in his machine might say "Yup, my machine
now has an extra 16M of memory, thanks to the card I'm testing for
Mumbleco."


7. A conversational wild card used to designate something one doesn't
want to bother spelling out, but which can be glarked from context.
Compare blurgle.


8. [XEROX PARC] A colloquialism used to suggest that further
discussion would be fruitless.

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mumble

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mumble
(mutter) sth. into one's beard
etw. in den Bart nuscheln
mumble
(away) to oneself
in den Bart brummen; vor sich hin murmelm
mumble

Gemurmel n
mumble

Mauscheln n; Gemauschel n
mumble

knabbern; mummeln
mumble

vor sich hin murmeln; brummeln
mumble

nuscheln; undeutlich sprechen
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122 Moby Thesaurus words for "mumble":
aspirate, aspiration, bark, bated breath, bawl, bellow, bite,
blare, blat, blubber, boom, bray, breath, breathe, breathy voice,
buzz, cackle, champ, chant, chaw, chew, chew the cud, chew up,
chirp, chomp, coo, crow, drawl, drone, droning, exclaim,
exhalation, flute, fumble, gabble, gasp, gibber, gibbering, gnash,
gnaw, grind, growl, grunt, gum, hammer, hiss, jabber, jibber, keen,
lilt, limp, little voice, low voice, maffle, masticate, maunder,
maundering, mouth, mouthing, muddle, mumbling, munch, murmur,
murmuration, murmuring, mussitate, mutter, muttering, nibble, pant,
pipe, roar, rumble, ruminate, rumor, scream, screech, shriek,
shuffle, sibilate, sigh, sing, snap, snarl, snort, sob, soft voice,
speak, speak incoherently, splutter, sputter, squall, squawk,
squeal, stage whisper, stammer, still small voice, stumble,
stutter, susurrate, susurration, susurrus, swallow, talk, thunder,
trumpet, twang, underbreath, undertone, utter, verbalize, vocalize,
voice, wail, warble, whine, whisper, whispering, yap, yawp, yell,
yelp



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