单词 | mumbled |
释义 | mumbledadj. 1. Spoken or uttered indistinctly. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > muttering or mumbling > mumbled undistinct1495 mumbled?1542 murmured1584 demurmuratory1617 muttered1626 broken-winded1627 ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors i. sig. A6 The mombled and mynsed masse. 1638 D. Mitchell Let. in Ld. Hailes Memor. (1766) II. 37 I have been..followed with many mumbled threatnings behind my back. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 116 The Sweating Image shakes his Head; but he With Mumbled Prayers, Attones the Deity. 1817 J. Hogg Sir Anthony Moore v. iv, in Dramatic Tales I. 271 Give o'er thy mumbled pesterous requests, It may not be. 1844 C. J. Lever Tom Burke II. lxi. 85 A servant..announced Le General somebody, but so mumbled was the word, the nearest thing I could make of it was ‘Bulletin’. 1871 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 403/2 I could hear..the low mumbled conversation of my host and his squaw. 1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim x. 130 His few mumbled words were enough. 1949 C. Bullock Rina 9 She looked quickly at me..then with a mumbled ‘Dankie’ hurried to a seat further along the coach. 1982 A. Tyler Dinner at Homesick Restaurant iv. 116 Todd Duckett gave a mumbled cough. 2. Lightly or partially chewed. rare. ΚΠ 1839 C. Lofft Ernest i. 9 The huge chimney growled, As some churl mastiff o'er his mumbled bones, It's gruff complacence. 1872 C. M. Yonge P's & Q's ix. 95 She..flew to the old rocking-horse..there was a hole in his side. Olive and Clare were wont..to drop in old mumbled crusts. 3. Cooked to a very soft consistency. Cf. mumble v. 5. mumbled eggs n. buttered or scrambled eggs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > scrambled eggs buttered eggsa1425 scrambled egg(s)1864 mumbled eggs1879 rumble-tumble1879 Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck them1891 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > general preparation processes > [adjective] > broken in small pieces mumbled1879 1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 88 Mumbled eggs, or ‘rumble-tumble’. 1985 S. Lowry Young Fogey Handbk. viii. 72 Back with mumbled rabbit. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 14 Oct. 16 Dishes such as 14th-century pork and golden apples..and mumbled eggs and minted peacakes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1542 |
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