mump

mumpverb/mʌmp/

• 1

  To mumble, speak unclearly.

  • Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling, Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]
• 2

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

  • He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]
• 3

  To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.

• 4

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

• 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.
• 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.
  • It remained necessary to make a shift at bearing yourself like a man; not mumping, not moping.
• 7

  To nibble.

mumpnoun/mʌmp/

• 1

  obsoleteA grimace.