Reverse Dictionary: MUMBLE

ADJECTIVES
► GAVELLOUS mumbling, lisping, indistinct → 1903 Sc.
► MOWY-MOUTHED characterizing speech that is mumbling, rambling, evasive → 1936 Amer. dial.
► MUMBLY inclined to mumble → 1849
► TONGUE-TACKIT mumbling, indistinct in speech, inarticulate → 1923 Sc.

NOUNS
► FUMBLE confused utterance, a mumbling → 1647 obs.
► HUMMEL-BUMMEL an imitation of mumbling → 1537 obs.
► MUMBLEMENT a mumbling; a mumbled or muttered utterance → 1595
► MUSSITATION a mumbling, a grumbling, a muttering, a murmuring; a speaking in a low tone → 1649

VERBS
► DRUMBLE to mumble, mutter, or talk in a sleepy, monotonous manner → 1579 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► EAT ONE’S WORDS to mumble, to speak incoherently → 1968 Amer. dial.
► FLUMMER to mumble, to repeat indistinctly → 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.
► HEE-HAW ► HEM AND HAW ► HEM-HAW to mumble, to mutter, to be indecisive → L15 sl.
► HUM AND HAW to mumble, to mutter, to be indecisive → 1632
► MAFFLE to mumble; to speak indistinctly, to stammer → 1387 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MAMBLE to mumble, to mutter; to chatter → c1275 obs.
► MAMMOCK to mumble → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MAUNDER to mumble; to grumble; to threaten in an undertone → 1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MIFFLE AFTER to mumble about or concerning → 1893 Eng. dial.
► MUM to mumble, to mutter, to whisper; to speak softly or indistinctly → c1390
► MUMP to mumble, to mutter; to utter indistinctly or inarticulately, as if with toothless gums → a1586
► MURMELL to mutter, to mumble → 1546 Sc. obs.
► NATTLE to mumble in a toothless fashion → 1825 Sc.
► PALTER to mumble, to mutter, to babble; to speak indistinctly or idly → 1538 obs.
► RABBIT ON to mumble, to grumble; to chatter; to complain → 1941 sl.
► SUP UP to mumble, to mutter; to utter indistinctly → 1581 obs.
► THRUM to speak or read in a monotonous tone; to mumble → 1774
► WABBLE to mumble in a halting or indistinct way; to stammer out → 1920 Sc.
► YAFFLE to mumble, as a toothless person; to talk indistinctly → 1847 Eng. dial.