Definitions for mumbles

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mumbles mum·ble

Spelling: [muhm-buh l]

IPA: /ˈmʌm bəl/

Mumbles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in mumbles (belmmsu).

Definitions for mumbles

noun

1. a low, indistinct utterance or sound.

verb (used with object)

1. to say or utter indistinctly, as with partly closed lips:
2. to chew, or try to eat, with difficulty, as from loss of teeth.

verb (used without object)

1. to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
2. to chew ineffectively, as from loss of teeth:

Origin of mumbles

1275-1325; Middle English momelen, equivalent to mom(me) mum¹ + -elen -le; compare Dutch mommelen, German mummeln

Examples for mumbles

"The mumble could be passive aggressive—the person wants to have someone work very hard at hearing them," Batson says.

He defines Dynamic Inaction with one pithy aphorism: “When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.”

I wondered whether I should mumble that I had been raised by a German Lutheran.

His boastful accents died away into a mumble: "Dunno what I should do."

During takeoff and landing, I mumble a short prayer that I learned long ago in Sunday school.

I understood his mumble to mean that "he didn't know any game."

When he would cry out to her his frozen lips could mumble no words.

Everywhere we go, inspiration hits us and we just kind of mumble things into our iPhones.

He squeezed my arm till he extorted from me some sort of mumble.

Gone was the mumble, gone was every thought except the misery of the minute.