mumbles
MUM-buhlz/ˈmʌmbəlz/
- 1Plural of mumble.
The lawyer's mumbles frustrated the judge, who asked him to speak up.
Soft mumbles drifted from the back row during the lecture.
Note
A plural that treats each low, indistinct utterance as a separate event, so it takes counting words: a few mumbles, several mumbles, the mumbles from the back row. The same spelling is also the verb's present tense after he, she or it (she mumbles an answer). Position tells them apart: after a determiner or adjective it is the noun, and after a subject it is the verb.
mumbles is a form of mumble
mumble, noun: A low, indistinct vocalization, or a quiet tone of voice that is hard to make out. Full entry
- Forms
- mumblemumbles plural
- Spelling
- mumble → mumbles: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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