English Dictionary

mump

/mʌmp/

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To mumble, speak unclearly. / To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness. / (intransitive) To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.

She mumps the pillow to make it more comfortable.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To mumble, speak unclearly.

Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling,

Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling, Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]

意味（2）

To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.

He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]

意味（3）

(intransitive) To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.

意味（4）

To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.

意味（5）

To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.

Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants here; and then went mumping with a sore leg in America, canting, and whining, and complaining of faction, which represented them as friends to a revenue from the colonies.

意味（6）

To be sullen or sulky.

The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.

意味（7）

(transitive, intransitive) To nibble.

意味（8）

(Of a police officer) to accept a small gift or bribe in exchange for services.