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mumblenews

mumblenews noun: a gossiper.

Noun

mumblenews (plural mumblenewses)

  1. (obsolete) A gossiper.
    • Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany, / Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, scene 2, lines 463–464
    • Well said, you mumblenews from Kolistin. Well said!2017 [1870], Douglas Robinson, transl., The Brothers Seven, Bucharest: Zeta Books, translation of Seitsemän veljestä by Aleksis Kivi (in Finnish), page 330
    Synonyms:
    gossiper

Synonyms of mumblenews

Forms of mumblenews

pluralmumblenewses

Origin of mumblenews

From mumble + news.

Questions about mumblenews

What does mumblenews mean?
Mumblenews means a gossiper.
What part of speech is mumblenews?
Mumblenews is a noun.
What is the plural of mumblenews?
The plural of mumblenews is mumblenewses.

Words near mumblenews in the dictionary

  1. mumblecore
  2. mumbled
  3. mumbledypeg
  4. mumblement
  5. mumblements
  6. mumblenews
  7. mumblenewses
  8. mumbler
  9. mumblers
  10. mumbles
  11. mumblesome

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