ALL meanings of mumble
mum·ble
M m - noun mumble Say something indistinctly and quietly, making it difficult for others to hear. 1
- verb without object mumble to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter. 1
- verb without object mumble to chew ineffectively, as from loss of teeth: to mumble on a crust. 1
- verb with object mumble to say or utter indistinctly, as with partly closed lips: He mumbled something about expenses. 1
- verb with object mumble to chew, or try to eat, with difficulty, as from loss of teeth. 1
- noun mumble a low, indistinct utterance or sound. 1
- intransitive verb mumble speak in a muffled voice 1
- transitive verb mumble muffled speech 1
- noun Technical meaning of mumble 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 glarked from context. Compare blurgle. 5. [XEROX PARC] A colloquialism used to suggest that further discussion would be fruitless. 1
- verb mumble If you mumble, you speak very quietly and not at all clearly with the result that the words are difficult to understand. 0
- verb mumble Mumble is also a noun. 0
- verb mumble to utter indistinctly, as with the mouth partly closed; mutter 0
- verb mumble to chew (food) ineffectually or with difficulty 0
- noun mumble an indistinct or low utterance or sound 0
- verb transitive mumble to speak or say indistinctly and in a low voice, as with the mouth partly closed; mutter 0
- verb transitive mumble to chew gently and ineffectively, as with toothless gums 0
- noun mumble a mumbled sound or utterance 0