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mumble 音标拼音: [m'ʌmbəl]
n. 喃喃而语,咕哝
vt. vi. 喃喃而语,咕哝 喃喃而语,咕哝喃喃而语,咕哝 mumble n 1: a soft indistinct utterance v 1: talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice [synonym: {mumble}, {mutter}, {maunder}, {mussitate}] 2: grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food" [synonym: {mumble}, {gum}] Mumble \Mum"ble\ (m[u^]m"b'l), v. t. 1. To utter with a low, inarticulate voice. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 2. To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth. [1913 Webster] Gums unarmed, to mumble meat in vain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. To suppress, or utter imperfectly. [1913 Webster] Mumbledy peg Mumble \Mum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mumbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mumbling}.] [OE. momelen; cf. D. mompelen, mommelen, G. mummelen, Sw. mumla, Dan. mumle. Cf. {Mum}, a., {Mumm}, {Mump}, v.] 1. To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. [1913 Webster] Peace, you mumbling fool. --Shak. [1913 Webster] A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself. --Otway. [1913 Webster] 2. To chew something gently with closed lips. [1913 Webster] 122 Moby Thesaurus words for "mumble": aspirate, aspiration, bark, bated breath, bawl, bellow, bite, blare, blat, blubber, boom, bray, breath, breathe, breathy voice, buzz, cackle, champ, chant, chaw, chew, chew the cud, chew up, chirp, chomp, coo, crow, drawl, drone, droning, exclaim, exhalation, flute, fumble, gabble, gasp, gibber, gibbering, gnash, gnaw, grind, growl, grunt, gum, hammer, hiss, jabber, jibber, keen, lilt, limp, little voice, low voice, maffle, masticate, maunder, maundering, mouth, mouthing, muddle, mumbling, munch, murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitate, mutter, muttering, nibble, pant, pipe, roar, rumble, ruminate, rumor, scream, screech, shriek, shuffle, sibilate, sigh, sing, snap, snarl, snort, sob, soft voice, speak, speak incoherently, splutter, sputter, squall, squawk, squeal, stage whisper, stammer, still small voice, stumble, stutter, susurrate, susurration, susurrus, swallow, talk, thunder, trumpet, twang, underbreath, undertone, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, wail, warble, whine, whisper, whispering, yap, yawp, yell, yelp 1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to
enunciate, or the speaker has not thought it out. Often prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance to get into a long discussion. "Don't you think that we could improve LISP performance by using a hybrid reference-count transaction garbage collector, if the cache is big enough and there are some extra cache bits for the {microcode} to use?" "Well, mumble ... I'll have to think about it." 2. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, like {foo}. 3. Sometimes used in "public" contexts on-line as a placefiller for things one is barred from giving details about. For example, a poster with pre-released hardware in his machine might say "Yup, my machine now has an extra 16M of memory, thanks to the card I'm testing for Mumbleco." 4. A conversational wild card used to designate something one doesn't want to bother spelling out, but which can be {glark}ed from context. Compare {blurgle}. 5. [XEROX PARC] A colloquialism used to suggest that further discussion would be fruitless. (1997-03-27) mumble: interj. 1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to enunciate,
or the speaker has not thought it out. Often prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance to get into a long discussion. “Don't you think that we could improve LISP performance by using a hybrid reference-count transaction garbage collector, if the cache is big enough and there are some extra cache bits for the microcode to use?” “Well, mumble ... I'll have to think about it.”
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