mump

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A grimace. obsolete
  2. A cube of peat; a spade's depth of digging turf. UK,dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To mumble, speak unclearly. ambitransitive
    — 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. intransitive
  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.
  7. To nibble. ambitransitive

词形变化

mumps present,singular,third-person mumping participle,present mumped participle,past mumped past mumps plural mumps plural

词汇关系

衍生词
mumper mumpery Mumping Day mumpish

词源

Perhaps borrowed through obsolete Dutch mompen (“to cheat, swindle, deceive”), according to Kroonen, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *mump- (“to stain”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mm̥bʰ-neh₂- Also akin to German mimpfeln (“to mumble”), Icelandic mumpa (“to take into the mouth”). See also English mum.
While Kroonen claims Ancient Greek μέμφομαι (mémphomai, “I blame, accuse”) and the Germanic forms are reconcilable and related, Beekes rejects this, stating that Germanic -p- cannot here correspond to Greek -φ- and that this etymological connection is not widely considered reliable.
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