Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
mump .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word mumping.
Examples
-
But there is no point mumping and moaning about it.
Celtic 1-0 Rangers | Scottish Premier League match report 2011
-
I scrambled up, shaken, one hope gone, for I'd intended to move close, mumping piteously, and give him the point unexpected.
Watershed 2010
-
Popish trash, every one of them — private studies of the mumping old
Kenilworth 2004
-
‘Why, as I am alive, this is the horse of that mumping villain Slingsby.’
Lavengro 2004
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.