Definitions
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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mumble .
Etymologies
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mumble + -eth
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Examples
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History mumbleth something to the inquirer, "but what it is he heareth not."
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The traveler, as he paceth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her, Who builded them? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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And she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. "
Emerson and Other Essays John Jay Chapman 1897
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