INARTICULATE
ADJECTIVES
► LIKE A BUMP ON A LOG stupidly silent or inarticulate → M19 US sl.
► SHORT-TONGUED having a short tongue; hence, inarticulate, stammering, lisping, tongue-tied; also, taciturn, unready in speech → c1575
► TIP-TONGUED inarticulate, indistinct in utterance, lisping → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TONGUE-TACKIT mumbling, indistinct in speech, inarticulate → 1923 Sc.
NOUNS
► JABBER chatter; incoherent, inarticulate, or unintelligible speech → 18C colloq.
NOUNS – PERSON
► FAFFLE a stammerer, one who is unable to articulate distinctly → c1900 Sc.
► JABBERER one who jabbers → c1675 colloq.
► MUSHMOUTH a person who speaks indistinctly or inarticulately; one who drawls → 1868 US sl.
VERBS
► BARBETTE to make inarticulate sounds; to mutter → c1480 obs.
► BLUTHER to make a noise in swallowing; to make an inarticulate sound → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BURR to speak roughly, indistinctly, or inarticulately → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► FUMFER ► FUMPER ► PHUMPHER to avoid making a decision and mumble, to speak inarticulately or indistinctly; to falter in one’s speech → 1954 US sl.
► GABBLE to talk volubly, inarticulately, and incoherently; to chatter, to prattle; also, to read so fast as to be unintelligible → 1577
► MUMP to utter indistinctly or inarticulately, as if with toothless gums; to mumble, to mutter → a1586
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