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- verb   Present participle of mump .
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Examples
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								But there is no point mumping and moaning about it. Celtic 1-0 Rangers | Scottish Premier League match report 2011 
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								I scrambled up, shaken, one hope gone, for I'd intended to move close, mumping piteously, and give him the point unexpected. Watershed 2010 
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								Popish trash, every one of them — private studies of the mumping old Kenilworth 2004 
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								‘Why, as I am alive, this is the horse of that mumping villain Slingsby.’ Lavengro 2004 
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								As they came near to the place, he espied Tickletoby afar off, coming home from mumping, and told them in macaronic verse: Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002 
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								As they came near to the place, he espied Tickletoby afar off, coming home from mumping, and told them in macaronic verse: Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002 
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								The Saturday following he had notice given him that Tickletoby, upon the filly of the convent — so they call a young mare that was never leaped yet — was gone a-mumping to St. Ligarius, and would be back about two in the afternoon. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002 
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								The Saturday following he had notice given him that Tickletoby, upon the filly of the convent — so they call a young mare that was never leaped yet — was gone a-mumping to St. Ligarius, and would be back about two in the afternoon. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002 
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								I scrambled up, shaken, one hope gone, for I'd intended to move close, mumping piteously, and give him the point unexpected. Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999 
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								So I figured, with the sweat cold on my skin, my ankle giving me hell's delight, and Lal mumping at my elbow. Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990 
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