The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mumping
Mump \Mump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Mumping.]
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To utter imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly.
Old men who mump their passion.
--Goldsmith. To work over with the mouth; to mumble; as, to mump food.
To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
Wiktionary
mumping
vb. (present participle of mump English)
Usage examples of "mumping".
Over the water and up to them came the sound of a tremendous barking, a noise made up of all the different kinds and sizes of barks there are: yaps and yelps, and yammers and yowls, growling and grizzling, whickering and whining, snickering and snarling, mumping and moaning, and the most enormous baying, like a giant bloodhound in the backyard of an ogre.
There was a flurry of movement and I heard the sound of mumping and shouting.