Word.ws English Dictionary

mismumbles

mismumbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mismumble.

Meaning of mismumble

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

Questions about mismumbles

What is mismumbles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mismumbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mismumble.

Words near mismumbles in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mismumbles (page history and authors); mismumble (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mismumbles.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mismumbles. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.