Definition of "mump"

mump¹

/mʌmp/

verb
third-person singular simple present mumps, present participle mumping, simple past and past participle mumped
1. (transitive, intransitive) To mumble, speak unclearly.
  Quotations
  Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling,Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]
  1773, Oliver Goldsmith, Epilogue Spoklen by Mrs. Bulkley and Miss Catley [intended for She Stoops to Conquer]
2. To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
  Quotations
  He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]
  1630, John Taylor, The Necessitie of Hanging
3. (intransitive) 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.
  Quotations
  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.
  1774, Edmund Burke, Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774
6. To be sullen or sulky.
  Quotations
  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.
  1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience […] ‎, London: Longmans, Green & Co.
  It remained necessary to make a shift at bearing yourself like a man; not mumping, not moping.
  1948, James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor
7. (transitive, intransitive) To nibble.
8. (Of a police officer) to accept a small gift or bribe in exchange for services.
noun
plural mumps
1. (obsolete) A grimace.

mump²

/mʌmp/

noun
plural mumps
1. (UK, dialect, Somerset) A cube of peat; a spade's depth of digging turf.

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