Mismumble
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To mumble the wrong words.
"He was dictating dialogues between two American boys, and forcing his students to learn to mismumble them; just such expressions as we have all, no doubt, heard American boys use to each other daily."
Example
More examples"He was dictating dialogues between two American boys, and forcing his students to learn to mismumble them; just such expressions as we have all, no doubt, heard American boys use to each other daily."
Etymology
From mis- + mumble.
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