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▪ I. mumbling, vbl. n.|ˈmʌmblɪŋ|
[f. mumble v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. mumble.
c1400Destr. Troy 1864 Me meruellis of þi momlyng & þi mad wordes. 1533More Debell. Salem Wks. 1021/1 Consider..what wisedome the man hath shewed, in makyng such a mumbling of chaunging spyrytuall rulers into prelates. a1553Udall Royster D. i. iii. (Arb.) 20 Olde browne bread crustes must haue much good mumblyng. 1621Burton Anat. Mel., Democr. to Rdr. (1624) 24 Praying in gibberish, & mumbling of beads. 1878Browning Poets Croisic xc, From his lips a sort of mumbling fell of who was to be kicked.
▪ II. mumbling, ppl. a.|ˈmʌmblɪŋ|
[f. mumble v. + -ing2.]
That mumbles.
c1440York Myst. xxxi. 305 Þou mummeland myghtyng. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 187/1 True it is, that the Papists will pray in a mumbling and babling sort. 1693Dryden Juvenal x. (1697) 268 For the Boys a mumbling Vow she sends. 1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3904/4 A mumbling Speech, his upper Teeth before double. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. i, There was a faint, mumbling smile about the lips of the old woman.
Hence ˈmumblingly adv., in a mumbling manner.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) V. viii. 88 Mumblingly hoarse. 1872‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-Gl. (1898) 102 [He] muttered mumblingly and low As if his mouth were full of dough. |