mump


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mump

(mʌmp)
vb
(intr) archaic to be silent
[C16 (to grimace, sulk, be silent): of imitative origin, alluding to the shape of the mouth when mumbling or chewing]

mump

(mʌmp)
vb
(intr) archaic to beg
[C17: perhaps from Dutch mompen to cheat]
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mump


Past participle: mumped
Gerund: mumping

Imperative
mump
mump
Present
I mump
you mump
he/she/it mumps
we mump
you mump
they mump
Preterite
I mumped
you mumped
he/she/it mumped
we mumped
you mumped
they mumped
Present Continuous
I am mumping
you are mumping
he/she/it is mumping
we are mumping
you are mumping
they are mumping
Present Perfect
I have mumped
you have mumped
he/she/it has mumped
we have mumped
you have mumped
they have mumped
Past Continuous
I was mumping
you were mumping
he/she/it was mumping
we were mumping
you were mumping
they were mumping
Past Perfect
I had mumped
you had mumped
he/she/it had mumped
we had mumped
you had mumped
they had mumped
Future
I will mump
you will mump
he/she/it will mump
we will mump
you will mump
they will mump
Future Perfect
I will have mumped
you will have mumped
he/she/it will have mumped
we will have mumped
you will have mumped
they will have mumped
Future Continuous
I will be mumping
you will be mumping
he/she/it will be mumping
we will be mumping
you will be mumping
they will be mumping
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been mumping
you have been mumping
he/she/it has been mumping
we have been mumping
you have been mumping
they have been mumping
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been mumping
you will have been mumping
he/she/it will have been mumping
we will have been mumping
you will have been mumping
they will have been mumping
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been mumping
you had been mumping
he/she/it had been mumping
we had been mumping
you had been mumping
they had been mumping
Conditional
I would mump
you would mump
he/she/it would mump
we would mump
you would mump
they would mump
Past Conditional
I would have mumped
you would have mumped
he/she/it would have mumped
we would have mumped
you would have mumped
they would have mumped
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
References in classic literature ?
The expression of Mump's face, which seemed to be tolerating the superfluous existence of objects in general, was strongly confirmatory of this high praise.
"I can't give you Mumps, 'cause he'd break his heart to go away from me--eh, Mumps, what do you say, you riff-raff?" (Mumps declined to express himself more diffusely than by a single affirmative movement of his tail.) "But I'd get you a pup, Miss, an' welcome."
You better bet they do with THESE mumps. These mumps is different.
"Well, what in the nation do they call it the MUMPS for?"
Young Johnny Booth was to have been married yesterday, but he couldn't be because he's gone and got the mumps. Wasn't that like a man?"
"Remember mumps," he warned her almost threateningly, and off he went again.
Send your soldiers at once to open the dungeon door, or you shall have mumps before the morning sun has risen on the hills of Jolliginki."
He had had all the diseases that babies are heir to, in quick succession, scarlet fever, mumps, and whooping cough in the first year, and now he was down with the measles.
You'd have to go down at once; his assistant has developed mumps. I believe it's a very pleasant place."
And then, one bright, clear morning, when the birds sang and all Nature seemed fair and gay, Clarence Tresillian developed mumps.
These are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure.
"Then that child looks as if it were coming down with mumps. You ought to tell the mother she shouldn't have brought it to church."