Word.ws English Dictionary

mounge

mounge verb: to whine or mutter.

Verb

mounge (third-person singular simple present mounges, present participle mounging, simple past and past participle mounged)

  1. (Northern, UK, intransitive, obsolete) To whine or mutter.
    • You should rouse her a bit, and not let her sit mounging that way.1893, Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell, Alan's Wife: A Dramatic Study in Three Scenes (page 25)

Forms of mounge

third-person singular presentmounges
present participlemounging
past participlemounged
pastmounged
alternative formmunge

Questions about mounge

What does mounge mean?
Mounge means to whine or mutter.
What part of speech is mounge?
Mounge is a verb.
What is the past tense of mounge?
The past tense of mounge is mounged.

Words near mounge in the dictionary

  1. moundsmen
  2. Moundsville
  3. moundwork
  4. moundworks
  5. moundy
  6. mounge
  7. mounged
  8. Mounger
  9. Moungers
  10. mounges
  11. mounging

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mounge (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: “mounge.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mounge. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.