INDISTINCT, INDISTINCTLY, INDISTINCTNESS
ADJECTIVES
► CREPUSCULOUS of the nature of twilight; in a state between light and darkness; dim, glimmering, dusky, indistinct, obscure → 1646
► DASHY rough and indistinct → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DULLY faint, indistinct → 1832 poetic usage
► FLANNELMOUTHED speaking indistinctly and in a muffled way → US
► FURZY fuzzy, indistinct, blurred → 1825
► FUZZY blurred, indistinct → 1778
► GAVELLOUS drawling in speech; mumbling, lisping, indistinct → 1903 Sc.
► LIKE A HUMBLE-BEE IN A CHURN having a voice not distinctly audible → 19C Eng. dial.
► MUSH-MOUTHED having a drawling or indistinct accent; of speech: unable to speak clearly, indistinct, imprecise, sloppy → 1909 US sl.
► MUSHY lacking clarity or definition, indistinct → 1839
► MUTTERY given to muttering; of a sound: low and indistinct like muttered speech → 1843
► MUZZY vague, hazy, indistinct; imprecisely defined; said of something presented to the mind or senses → 1744
► NEBULOSE cloudy, misty, indistinct → 1799
► NEBULOUS hazy, vague, indistinct, formless → 1831
► OBLITE dim, as if partly blotted out; indistinct, obscure → 1650 obs.
► OBNUBILOUS overclouded; cloudy, indistinct → 1432 obs.
► SLURRY blurred, indistinct, esp. of speech → M20
► THICK OF SPEECH indistinct → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TIP-TONGUED inarticulate, indistinct in utterance, lisping → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TONGUE-DOUBLED having the speech made indistinct by drink → 19C Eng. dial.
► TONGUE-TACKIT mumbling, indistinct in speech, inarticulate → 1923 Sc.
► VEILED of sound, the voice, etc.: indistinct, muffled, obscure → 1834
ADVERBS
► AT HALF LIGHTS indistinctly, vaguely, dimly → 1625
► BY HALF LIGHTS indistinctly, vaguely, dimly → a1711
► MURKILY obscurely, indistinctly → 1830
► MUZZILY vaguely, indistinctly; in bewilderment or confusion → 1903
NOUNS
► GOBBLE-GOBBLE rapid and indistinct speech → 1894 Ireland
► JABBERING nonsense; indistinct and rapid speech → 1690 sl.
► MUMMING inarticulate murmuring; indistinct speech → 1440 obs.
► NEBULOSITY cloudiness; indistinctness → 1809
► NEBULOUSNESS indistinctness → 1878
► OOM an indistinct appearance or image of anything, as the loom of land through a haze → 1892 Sc.
► SMOTHER a smothered or indistinct noise → 1904
NOUNS – PERSON
► BLADDERSKATE a silly foolish person; an indistinct or indiscreet talker; a babbler → a1680 Sc.
► JABBERER one who talks indistinctly or unintelligibly; one who talks nonsense; a chatterer → 1678
► MUSHMOUTH a person who speaks indistinctly or inarticulately; one who drawls → 1868 US sl.
► MUSHMOUTH a person who speaks indistinctly or inarticulately → US sl.
► YACKUZ one who talks thickly or indistinctly → 1824 Sc. obs.
VERBS
► BALL to speak indistinctly, in a disjointed manner → 1908 Sc.
► BLATHER to talk indistinctly → 1898 N. Ireland (Bk.)
► BLETHER to speak indistinctly; to stammer → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUMBLE to speak in a rambling, incoherent, or indistinct way, especially at tedious length → 1911
► BURR to speak roughly, indistinctly, or inarticulately → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BUZZ to speak indistinctly; to mutter, to murmur busily → 1555 arch.
► CACKLE to stutter, to speak indistinctly → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DROTE to speak indistinctly; to stammer, to stutter → c1440 obs.
► FLUMMER to repeat indistinctly, to mumble → 1533 obs.
► FUMFER ► FUMPER ► PHUMPHER to avoid making a decision and mumble, to speak inarticulately or indistinctly; to falter in one’s speech → 1954 US sl.
► FUZZ to make fuzzy, indistinct, or confused; to blur, to confound → 1907 chiefly US
► GABBER to jabber, to gibber, to talk incoherently; to speak thickly or indistinctly → 1706-7 obs. exc. Sc.
► GOLDER to speak indistinctly → 1825 Sc.
► JABBER to chatter; to speak fast and indistinctly; to talk gibberish → c1500 colloq.
► JABBLE to talk rapidly and indistinctly or unintelligibly; to speak volubly and with little sense; to chatter, to gabble, to prattle → 1570
► MAFFLE to mumble; to speak indistinctly, to stammer → 1387 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MOUTH-MAUL to talk loudly and abusively; to drawl; to speak indistinctly → 1876 Eng. dial.
► MUMBLE-JUMBLE to utter indistinctly and incoherently; to babble → 1834
► MUM-MUMBLE to utter in subdued or indistinct tones → a1586
► MUMP to utter indistinctly or inarticulately, as if with toothless gums; to mumble, to mutter → a1586
► NAFFER to talk through the nose; to talk indistinctly → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PALTER to speak indistinctly or idly; to say or recite in an indistinct tone; to mumble, to mutter, to babble → 1538 obs.
► RABBLE to talk or read quickly or indistinctly → 19C Eng. dial.
► SPUFFLE to utter thickly or indistinctly → 1861 Eng. dial.
► SUP UP to utter indistinctly, to mutter, to mumble → 1581 obs.
► WABBLE to stammer out, to blurt or mumble in a halting or indistinct way → 1920 Sc.
► YAFFLE to talk indistinctly; to mumble, as a toothless person → 1847 Eng. dial.
► YAMMER to talk or hum indistinctly; to stammer → 1881 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► YAWK to call out loudly; to hoot; to shout; to talk quickly and indistinctly → 1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.