mumping

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.

Watershed

‘Why, as I am alive, this is the horse of that mumping villain Slingsby.’

Lavengro

Popish trash, every one of them — private studies of the mumping old

Kenilworth

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

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

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

There's old Dick over in that bed there; he used to go 'mumping,' and when he got boosey with too much lush he stole some paltry thing or other, and being so often convicted they have 'legged' [12] him at last.

Six Years in the Prisons of England

So till next morning I lay mumping, with shivers and cowerings: for the shocks of the storm pervaded the locked church to my very heart; and there were thunders that night, my God, like callings and laughs and banterings, exchanged between distant hill-tops in Hell.

The Purple Cloud

Marrying into the ‘mumping’ and house-dwelling families has brought this about, and soon there will be no true Romanies left.

George Borrow in East Anglia