Word Meanings - MUMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. Peace, you mumbling fool. Shak. A wrinkled hag, with

Additional info about word: MUMBLE

1. To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. Peace, you mumbling fool. Shak. A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself. Otway. 2. To chew something gently with closed lips.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MUMBLE)

• Mutter
• Murmur
• mumble

Related words: (words related to MUMBLE)

• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• MURMUR
  1. A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water. 2. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden.
• MURMUROUS
  Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
• MUTTERINGLY
  With a low voice and indistinct articulation; in a muttering manner.
• MUMBLE
  1. To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. Peace, you mumbling fool. Shak. A wrinkled hag, with
• MURMURATION
  The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton.
• MURMURER
  One who murmurs.
• MURMURING
  Uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining. -- Mur"mur*ing*ly, adv.
• MUMBLENEWS
  A talebearer.
• MUTTER
  Etym: 1. To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complains or angry expressions; to grumble; to growl. Wizards that peep, and that mutter. Is. viii. 19. Meantime your filthy foreigner will
• MUMBLER
  One who mumbles.
• REMURMUR
  To murmur again; to utter back, or reply, in murmurs. The trembling trees, in every plain and wood, Her fate remurmur to the silver flood. Pope.