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mump
/mʌmp/
verb 5noun 2
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1MUMP + NOUN
passion
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verb
1
To mumble, speak unclearly.
Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling, Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]
2
To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]
3
To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
4
To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
5
To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants here; and then went mumping with a sore leg in America, canting, and whining, and complaining of faction, which represented them as friends to a revenue from the colonies.
noun
1
A grimace.
noun
1
A cube of peat; a spade's depth of digging turf.
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Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling, Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]
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He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]
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Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants here; and then went mumping with a sore leg in America, canting, and whining, and complaining of faction, which represented them as friends to
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