- mumble
[mumble 词源字典]
- mumble: see mumps
[mumble etymology, mumble origin, 英语词源] - mumble (v.)
- early 14c., momelen, "to eat in a slow, ineffective manner" (perhaps "to talk with one's mouth full"), probably frequentative of interjection mum. The -b- is excrescent. Meaning "to speak indistinctly" is from mid-14c. Related: Mumbled; mumbling.
- mumble (n.)
- 1902, from mumble (v.).