Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
mump .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But there is no point mumping and moaning about it.
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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.
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Popish trash, every one of them — private studies of the mumping old
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‘Why, as I am alive, this is the horse of that mumping villain Slingsby.’
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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