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mumble
(mass) | mumble
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mumble
(encz) | mumble,mumlat v: Zdeněk Brož |
Mumble
(gcide) | Mumble \Mum"ble\ (m[u^]m"b'l), v. t.
1. To utter with a low, inarticulate voice. --Bp. Hall.
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2. To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth.
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Gums unarmed, to mumble meat in vain. --Dryden.
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3. To suppress, or utter imperfectly.
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Mumble
(gcide) | Mumble \Mum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mumbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mumbling.] [OE. momelen; cf. D. mompelen, mommelen, G.
mummelen, Sw. mumla, Dan. mumle. Cf. Mum, a., Mumm,
Mump, v.]
1. To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the
sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a
grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or
displeasure; to mutter.
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Peace, you mumbling fool. --Shak.
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A wrinkled hag, with age grown double,
Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
--Otway.
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2. To chew something gently with closed lips.
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mumble
(wn) | mumble
n 1: a soft indistinct utterance
v 1: talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice [syn: mumble,
mutter, maunder, mussitate]
2: grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great
difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his
food" [syn: mumble, gum] |
mumble
(foldoc) | mumble
1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to
enunciate, or the speaker has not thought it out. Often
prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance to
get into a long discussion. "Don't you think that we could
improve LISP performance by using a hybrid reference-count
transaction garbage collector, if the cache is big enough and
there are some extra cache bits for the microcode to use?"
"Well, mumble ... I'll have to think about it."
2. Yet another metasyntactic variable, like foo.
3. Sometimes used in "public" contexts on-line as a
placefiller for things one is barred from giving details
about. For example, a poster with pre-released hardware in
his machine might say "Yup, my machine now has an extra 16M of
memory, thanks to the card I'm testing for Mumbleco."
4. A conversational wild card used to designate something one
doesn't want to bother spelling out, but which can be
glarked from context. Compare blurgle.
5. [XEROX PARC] A colloquialism used to suggest that further
discussion would be fruitless.
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mumble
(jargon) | mumble
interj.
1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to enunciate, or the
speaker has not thought it out. Often prefaces a longer answer, or
indicates a general reluctance to get into a long discussion. “Don't you
think that we could improve LISP performance by using a hybrid
reference-count transaction garbage collector, if the cache is big enough
and there are some extra cache bits for the microcode to use?” “Well,
mumble ... I'll have to think about it.”
2. [MIT] Expression of not-quite-articulated agreement, often used as an
informal vote of consensus in a meeting: “So, shall we dike out the COBOL
emulation?” “Mumble!”
3. Sometimes used as an expression of disagreement (distinguished from
sense 2 by tone of voice and other cues). “I think we should buy a {VAX}.
” “Mumble!” Common variant: mumble frotz (see frotz; interestingly, one
does not say ‘mumble frobnitz’ even though ‘frotz’ is short for
‘frobnitz’).
4. Yet another metasyntactic variable, like foo.
5. When used as a question (“Mumble?”) means “I didn't understand you”.
6. Sometimes used in ‘public’ contexts on-line as a placefiller for things
one is barred from giving details about. For example, a poster with
pre-released hardware in his machine might say “Yup, my machine now has an
extra 16M of memory, thanks to the card I'm testing for Mumbleco.”
7. A conversational wild card used to designate something one doesn't want
to bother spelling out, but which can be glarked from context. Compare {
blurgle}.
8. [XEROX PARC] A colloquialism used to suggest that further discussion
would be fruitless.
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mumble-the-peg
(encz) | mumble-the-peg,hra s nožem Zdeněk Brož |
mumbled
(encz) | mumbled,nesrozumitelně vyslovený Zdeněk Brož |
mumbler
(encz) | mumbler,mumlání n: Zdeněk Brož |
mumbles
(encz) | mumbles,mumlá v: Zdeněk Brož |
mumbletypeg
(encz) | mumbletypeg,hra s nožem Zdeněk Brož |
Mumble
(gcide) | Mumble \Mum"ble\ (m[u^]m"b'l), v. t.
1. To utter with a low, inarticulate voice. --Bp. Hall.
[1913 Webster]
2. To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth.
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Gums unarmed, to mumble meat in vain. --Dryden.
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3. To suppress, or utter imperfectly.
[1913 Webster] Mumbledy pegMumble \Mum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mumbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mumbling.] [OE. momelen; cf. D. mompelen, mommelen, G.
mummelen, Sw. mumla, Dan. mumle. Cf. Mum, a., Mumm,
Mump, v.]
1. To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the
sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a
grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or
displeasure; to mutter.
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Peace, you mumbling fool. --Shak.
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A wrinkled hag, with age grown double,
Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
--Otway.
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2. To chew something gently with closed lips.
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mumble peg
(gcide) | Mumbledy peg \Mum"ble*dy peg`\, Mumblety peg \Mum"ble*ty peg`\,
n.
A game played with a pocketknife, the object of which is to
throw the knife in any of a vairety of ways (such as over the
back), or from various positions, and have it stick in the
ground or another surface. Also called mumble-the-peg and
mumble peg.
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Mumbled
(gcide) | Mumble \Mum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mumbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mumbling.] [OE. momelen; cf. D. mompelen, mommelen, G.
mummelen, Sw. mumla, Dan. mumle. Cf. Mum, a., Mumm,
Mump, v.]
1. To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the
sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a
grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or
displeasure; to mutter.
[1913 Webster]
Peace, you mumbling fool. --Shak.
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A wrinkled hag, with age grown double,
Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
--Otway.
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2. To chew something gently with closed lips.
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Mumbledy peg
(gcide) | Mumbledy peg \Mum"ble*dy peg`\, Mumblety peg \Mum"ble*ty peg`\,
n.
A game played with a pocketknife, the object of which is to
throw the knife in any of a vairety of ways (such as over the
back), or from various positions, and have it stick in the
ground or another surface. Also called mumble-the-peg and
mumble peg.
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Mumblenews
(gcide) | Mumblenews \Mum"ble*news`\, n.
A talebearer. [Obs.]
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Mumbler
(gcide) | Mumbler \Mum"bler\, n.
One who mumbles.
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mumble-the-peg
(gcide) | Mumbledy peg \Mum"ble*dy peg`\, Mumblety peg \Mum"ble*ty peg`\,
n.
A game played with a pocketknife, the object of which is to
throw the knife in any of a vairety of ways (such as over the
back), or from various positions, and have it stick in the
ground or another surface. Also called mumble-the-peg and
mumble peg.
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Mumblety peg
(gcide) | Mumbledy peg \Mum"ble*dy peg`\, Mumblety peg \Mum"ble*ty peg`\,
n.
A game played with a pocketknife, the object of which is to
throw the knife in any of a vairety of ways (such as over the
back), or from various positions, and have it stick in the
ground or another surface. Also called mumble-the-peg and
mumble peg.
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mumble-the-peg
(wn) | mumble-the-peg
n 1: a game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in
various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground [syn:
mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg] |
mumbler
(wn) | mumbler
n 1: a person who speaks softly and indistinctly [syn:
mutterer, mumbler, murmurer] |
mumblety-peg
(wn) | mumblety-peg
n 1: a game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in
various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground [syn:
mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg] |
mumble mode
(foldoc) | mumble mode
The mode a program, piece of hardware, or other
system is said to be in when it is still running and perhaps
reacting to input and/or occasionally producing output
(especially if it shouldn't), but in a way that appears wildly
inappropriate to the task it is supposed to perform.
Compare "off the trolley" and "deep space".
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