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mumblage

mumblage noun: mumbled or imprecise remarks, especially remarks which are trivial or unreliable.

Noun

mumblage (uncountable)

  1. (often, slang) Mumbled or imprecise remarks, especially remarks which are trivial or unreliable.
    • As to the mumblage on "race", since there exists no well defined meaning of the word, depending on how one defines it, one can imagine a group which will prove one's point, whichever one wishes to prove.2001 April 18, KPJ (kpj@sics.se), "Re: Made in China," mail archive at extropians.weidai.com (retrieved 10 June 2014)
    • Mostly idiotic mumblage about how Paul McCartney was dead and had been replaced by a robot.2005 May 8, Citizen Arcane, ""Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine"," CitizenArcane.com (retrieved 10 June 2014)
    Synonyms:
    muttering

Examples of mumblage in a sentence

  • If all you've been given is some mumblage about "portability", ask the dipstick who's telling you to do this to provide you with solid numbers.2007 Sept. 20, John Bode, "C/C++ guidelines," velocityreviews.com (retrieved 10 June 2014)
  • Most of the other legalese mumblage is about patent protection and so on.2008 January 3, Richard Teer, “RE: avr-lib-c-extentions^([sic]) library”, in Discussion of development of avr-libc / comments.gmane.org...
  • I get some vague mumblage about charging more for folks who major in things that aren’t something such as anthropology, arts or theater.2012 December 15, “Cheap Sheepskin”, in Blog: Simple Country Physicist, retrieved 10 Jun 2014:

Synonyms of mumblage

Origin of mumblage

From mumble + -age.

Questions about mumblage

What does mumblage mean?
Mumblage means mumbled or imprecise remarks, especially remarks which are trivial or unreliable.
How do you use mumblage in a sentence?
If all you've been given is some mumblage about "portability", ask the dipstick who's telling you to do this to provide you with solid numbers.
What part of speech is mumblage?
Mumblage is a noun.

Words near mumblage in the dictionary

  1. Mumbai Suburban
  2. Mumbaikar
  3. Mumbaikars
  4. Mumbannar
  5. Mumbil
  6. mumblage
  7. mumble
  8. mumble rap
  9. mumble-bee
  10. mumble-bees
  11. mumble-matins

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