Mump

//mʌmp//

"Mump" in a Sentence (5 examples)

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

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

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.

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.

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