Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To mumble or mutter, as in sulkiness.
- To nibble; chew; munch, or move the jaw-as if munching.
- To chatter; make mouths; grin like an ape.
- To implore alms in a low muttering tone; play the beggar; hence, to deceive; practise imposture.
- To utter with a low, indistinct voice; chatter unintelligibly.
- To munch; chew: as, to
mump food. - To overreach.
- noun A protuberance; a lump.
- noun Any great knotty piece of wood; a root.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
- intransitive verb To talk imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly; to chatter unintelligibly.
- intransitive verb To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To be sullen or sulky.
- transitive verb To utter imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly.
- transitive verb To work over with the mouth; to mumble.
- transitive verb To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To mumble, speak unclearly.
- verb intransitive To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
- verb To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
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Examples
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It's easier to pronounce if you stop to rest at the top of the "mump".
In a Name 2006
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I hate that books are so expensive ... mump grump moan.
Prodigal Mage update -- yaaaawn! karenmiller 2008
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Wyl yur inz dere, kud yu pweese pik mih owt a boblolhedded blak kat and a mump kin petunia?
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But today it's safe to say mump of the political world was watching just how she handled her.
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And then this virus likes to go to the parotid glands, those salivary glands right before the ear, and you begin to get a little pain in your ear and then it swells and that's the mump.
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I've been feeling not quite right for several weeks, which is how it started the last time, only I'm under more stress now than before, not to mention the fact that I don't sleep, well, at all anymore, and so help me GOD, if I get that horrific mump thing again, I'm just going to kill myself.
idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2006
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We have a sort of little image there of what vaccinations your child should be getting: measles, mump and rubella; diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis; and the polio vaccine.
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But if the Woman marks that this helps not, and that all things remain in the old posture, then she begins to mump and maunder at her husband; vaunting much of her own fitness, and not a little suspecting her husbands; oftentimes calling him a Fumbler, a dry-boots, and a good man Do-little, &c.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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He reckons he will do the same again ( "What chap don't, 'cept they mump-headed long-faced beggars?"), but at present he turns from liquor; he always does for a day and a half after 'going on the bust.'
A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900
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Zantippa didn't sit daan an 'mump, but up stairs shoo went an' made th 'beds, an' a rare shakin 'they gat, for shoo wor just ful o' summat an 'shoo mud vent her feelins someway.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
sionnach commented on the word mump
accept a bribe
March 13, 2007
she commented on the word mump
To cheat, to get the better of. Also with of, out of. Now Eng. regional (south-west.) (rare), though very common in the second half of the 17th cent.
Now slang and Eng. regional: To obtain by begging or scrounging; To beg, go about begging; to sponge upon.
Brit. slang, Of a police officer: to accept a small gift or bribe in return for services.
August 6, 2008