mump
1 Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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to sulk; mope.
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to grimace.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
verb
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
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A great mump scare, perhaps a mump epidemic, seemed imminent.
From Time Magazine Archive
If a woman sits quiet shoo begins to mump.
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by John Hartley
And I believe I had several measles, and a mump or two as a child.
From The Wallypug in London by Alan Wright
I am sure to mump and moan is not in you; besides, you would be the last to have yourself numbered among the Tommies of the world, the half-bottle men.
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
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 Gordon Stables
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