mump

¹ American  

[muhmp, moomp] / mʌmp, mʊmp /

verb (used with object)

1. to mumble; mutter.

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verb (used without object)

1. to sulk; mope.

2. to grimace.

mump ² American  

[muhmp, moomp] / mʌmp, mʊmp /

verb (used with object)

1. to cheat.

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verb (used without object)

1. to beg.

mump ¹ British  

/ mʌmp /

verb

1. archaic (intr) to be silent

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mump ² British  

/ mʌmp /

verb

1. archaic (intr) to beg

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Etymology

Origin of mump¹

First recorded in 1580–90; imitative, apparently akin to mum ¹; compare Dutch mompen “to mumble, grumble,” German mimpfeln “to mumble while eating,” Icelandic mumpa “to take into the mouth, eat greedily”

Origin of mump²

First recorded in 1645–55; from obsolete Dutch mompen “to conceal, cheat, deceive”

Example Sentences

A great mump scare, perhaps a mump epidemic, seemed imminent.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Mother tied it with a piece, And then she tied up Will and John, And no one else but Dick was left That didn't have a mump rag on.

From Under the Tree by Roberts, Elizabeth Madox

Mump, mump, v.t. and v.i. to mumble, mutter, or move the lips with the mouth almost closed: to nibble: to cheat: to play the beggar.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Zantippa didn't sit daan an' mump, but up stairs shoo went an' made th' beds, an' a rare shakin' they gat, for shoo wor just ful o' summat an' shoo mud vent her feelins someway.

From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John

So this disobliging beetle would just stop there, making a kind of a mump in the poor Admiral’s neck.

From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Stables, Gordon