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  • a nice Beshaley you, to sing mumpin and mongerin, when a half-blood Matthews has too much decency to trouble the rye!

    The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • Sure now, Edward, you know yourself it's not raisonable to have a young man like him mumpin 'and mopin' about, as if there was a wake in the house? "

    The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

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  • Scots - to complain.

    "Will ye stop mumpin oan man!"

    - Please cease complaining, sir.

    December 8, 2007