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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
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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
bilby commented on the word mumpin
Scots - to complain.
"Will ye stop mumpin oan man!"
- Please cease complaining, sir.
December 8, 2007