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mismumble

mismumble verb: to mumble the wrong words.

Verb

mismumble (third-person singular simple present mismumbles, present participle mismumbling, simple past and past participle mismumbled)

  1. To mumble the wrong words.
    • He was dictating dialogues between two American boys, and forcing his students to learn to mismumble them; just such expressions as we have all, no doubt, heard American boys use to each other daily.1917, Harry Alverson Franck, Vagabonding Down the Andes, page 446
    • In choir and cloister, gathering up dropped Syllables, mismumbled words dislodged From the liturgy by sinful clerics.2016, John Leonard, “Tittivillus”, in Think of the World: Collected Poems

Forms of mismumble

third-person singular presentmismumbles
present participlemismumbling
past participlemismumbled
pastmismumbled

Origin of mismumble

From mis- + mumble.

Questions about mismumble

What does mismumble mean?
Mismumble means to mumble the wrong words.
What part of speech is mismumble?
Mismumble is a verb.
What is the past tense of mismumble?
The past tense of mismumble is mismumbled.

Words near mismumble in the dictionary

  1. mismounts
  2. mismove
  3. mismoved
  4. mismoves
  5. mismoving
  6. mismumble
  7. mismumbled
  8. mismumbles
  9. mismumbling
  10. misnagdim
  11. misnaged

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