mumped

Verb

mump (third-person singular simple present mumps, present participle mumping, simple past and past participle mumped)

1. (ambitransitive) To mumble, speak unclearly.
   • Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling,
     Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]1773, Oliver Goldsmith, Epilogue Spoklen by Mrs. Bulkley and Miss Catley [intended for She Stoops to Conquer]
2. To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
   • He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]1630, John Taylor, The Necessitie of Hanging
3. (intransitive) To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
4. To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.

   Synonyms:

   bum, cadge, sponge, beg, blag, leech, mooch, scrounge, scunge, tap

5. To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
   • Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants here; and then went mumping with a sore leg in America, canting, and whining, and complaining of faction, which represented them as friends to a revenue from the colonies.1774, Edmund Burke, Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774
6. To be sullen or sulky.
   • The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC

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