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mismumble

verb

Etymology

From mis- + mumble.

  1. derived from momelen
  2. prefixed as mismumble — “mis + mumble”

Definitions

  1. To mumble the wrong words.

    • He was dictating dialogues between two American boys, and forcing his students to learn to mismumble them; just such expressions as we have all, no doubt, heard American boys use to each other daily.
    • In choir and cloister, gathering up dropped Syllables, mismumbled words dislodged From the liturgy by sinful clerics.
    • In a side remark intended for me, and which struck me like a shaft, Culpepper, as vain a fellow as ever mismumbled an author's lines, remarked to Miss Hatch that an elephant would stretch his chain to reach a bonbon.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mismumble. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA