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”

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Example Sentences

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mump

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

But of all things to happen just at this time, the very next day Hinpoha came down with the mumps, or rather the mump, for only one side of her throat was affected.

From The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey

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 John Hartley

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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