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▪ I. mump, n. and a.|mʌmp|
Also 6–7 mumpe.
[Symbolical of the movements of the lips made in pronouncing the word. Cf. mump v. and mum int.
With sense 1 cf. Icel. mumpaskælur grimace with the mouth, mumpr curly beard (Björn Halldórson).]
A. n.
†1. A grimace, ‘mouth’. Obs.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse 22 b, Now he is no body that cannot drinke..with leapes, gloues, mumpes, fro[l]ickes, and a thousand such dominiering inuentions. 1611Cotgr., Monnoye de Singe, Moes, mumps, mouthes. 1635[Glapthorne] Lady Mother i. i. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 106 Gallants now court their Mistress with mumps & mows as apes and monkes doe.
2. pl. mumps (now construed as sing.). An acute specific contagious disease characterized by inflammation and swelling of the parotid and salivary glands.
1598Florio, Recchione, a disease or swelling in the necke called the mumps. 1758Gooch Cases Surg. 17 A Species of tumor called by the common people the Mumps. 1864J. Martineau in Nat. Rev. Nov. 274 The contagion of chickenpox and mumps.
3. pl. A fit of melancholy or ill-humour; ‘sulks’.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 45 The sunne was so in his mumps vppon it, that it was almost noone before hee could goe to cart that day. 1671Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl. s.v., He has the Mumps, pro Irasci, Indignari tacitâ præsertim Iracundiâ. 1861Under the Spell III. 109, I keep Kitty from getting the ‘mumps’.
4. A block of peat.
1951B. Lawrence Somerset Jrnl. 62 The blackish brown peat is cut in large slabs, called mumps. 1953A. Jobson Household & Country Crafts vii. 84 Each piece of peat was cut to a uniform size. One man cut the blocks or ‘mumps’, and another carried them away to dry. 1962Amateur Gardening 5 May 1/4 A ‘mump’ is a block of peat 10 in × 9 in × 9 in.
†B. adj. ? Drunk.
1599Porter Angry Wom. Abingt. (Percy Soc.) 48 What though he be mump, misled, blind, or as it were?
▪ II. mump, v.1|mʌmp|
[Related to mump n.
Cf. Icel. mumpa to take into the mouth, eat greedily (Björn Halldórsson), Norw. mumpa to fill the mouth too full, to mumble (in eating), Du. mompelen (rarely poet. mompen) to mumble (in utterance), early mod.G. mumpfen, mumpfelen to mumble (in eating).]
†1. trans. To utter with imperfect articulation, as a toothless person; to mumble, mutter. Also with out. Obs.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iv. (1622) 407 Mumping out her hoarse chafe, shee gaue him the wooden salutation you heard of. 1694‘Musophilus’ Posie for Lovers 5 The Godly Bedlam..Mump't out her Scorn, and grumbled Holy Words. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. Epil., Old men, whose trade is Still to gallant and dangle with the ladies, Who mump their passion.
2. intr.
†a. To grimace with the lips; to grin. Also transf. and fig. Obs.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet Lyly's Wks. 1902 III. 406/7, I will make him mumpe, mow, and chatter. 1664Cotton Scarron. i. 50 Venus, at that, wrigling and mumping, Cries, pray young man, leave of your frumping. 1719D'Urfey Pills VI. 198 She [sc. a rabbit] mumps like an Ape. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) VI. ix. 33 Aunt Nell..chuckled and mumped for joy.
b. To assume a demure or melancholy expression of countenance (see mumping ppl. a.); to be silent and sullen; to sulk, mope. arch. Also † to mump it.
c1610Lady Compton in Grose & Astle Antiq. Rep. (1808) III. 438, I would have two Gentlewomen... It is an indecent thing for a Gentlewoman to stand mumping alone, when God have blessed their Lord and Lady with a great Estate. 1675H. Woolley Gentlewoman's Comp. 69 Do not mump it, mince it, nor bridle the head, as if you either disliked the meat, or the company. 1825Scott Betrothed xvii, These antiquated dames went mumping about with much affected indifference. 1837T. Hook Jack Brag vi, How would you like to sit moping and mumping all alone. 1883Stevenson Lett. (1901) I. vi. 304 It is better to enjoy a novel than to mump.
3. a. intr. To mumble with the gums; to move the jaws as if mumbling food; to munch, nibble. Also const. at, on, upon. Obs. exc. dial.
1596Nashe Saffron-Walden Ded. C 3, Spend but a quarter so much time in mumping vppon Gabrielisme. 1615J. Taylor (Water P.) Urania xlix. Wks. (1630) i. 5/2 When hee's..Not a tooth left to mumpe on beanes and pease: Then this Companion..Will let thee haue this Palfray. 1629Davenant Albovine iv. i, Were my lean Jaws unmuffled you should see me mump, like a Matron that had lost her teeth. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. (1760) I. xi. 67 When he mumped or spoke, they [sc. his nose and chin] approached one another like a pair of nut-crackers. 1880J. Nicol Poems & Songs 167 Jack and Pat, and Owen and Sandy, Mumping and crumping away at the candy.
†b. trans. To chew with toothless gums, or turn over and over in the mouth. Obs.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 Down she sunk to the ground, as dead as a door naile, and neuer mumpt crust after. 1818Mrs. Sherwood Fairchild Fam. xxv, Miss Puss stood..mumping her parsley, after the manner of hares. 1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 117 Here, Doctor, mump it with satisfied tooth.
▪ III. mump, v.2 colloq. (orig. slang.)|mʌmp|
[prob. a. Du. mompen to cheat; connexion with prec. is doubtful. Sense 2 may belong to mump v.1]
†1. trans. To overreach, cheat. Const. of, out of. Also, ‘to disappoint’ (Phillips, ed. Kersey, 1706).
Very common in the second half of the 17th c.
1651Fuller's Abel Rediv., Colet (1867) I. 124 Intending thereby to mump Colet, who..never wrote a verse in his life. 1668Kirkman Eng. Rogue ii. xvi. 143 No sooner had I ended my Maunding, thinking to mump the Farmer out of some money,..but he [etc.]. 1676Wycherley Gent. Dancing Master iv. (1735) 84 He is..some debauched person, who will mump you of your daughter. 1682A. Behn City Heiress 59 How finely I had been mumpt now, if I had not shew'd your Ladyship trick for trick. a1734North Exam. i. ii. §150 They..let Indictments go, depending on the Petit-Jury for the Acquittal..but, in that also, they were mumped, as will appear.
2. a. intr. To beg; † to play the parasite, to ‘sponge’ on others. b. trans. To obtain by begging or ‘sponging’. c. To visit (a house) in the course of a begging round.
1673[Implied in mumper]. 1685F. Spence House of Medici 251 His..Presupposition, That they were so earnest for admittance, onely to mump [orig. mandier] the onely Voice they wanted for him. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Mump,..to beg, to spunge upon. 1728Brice's Weekly Jrnl. (Exeter) 27 Sept., Some of the Villains..had the no Conscience to rob a..Beggar-woman of a few Half-pence she had been mumping. 1738Weddell Voy. up Thames 86 A giddy Heir..who is often glad to mump a Dinner of which Nature had ordained him the Giver. 1808E. S. Barrett Miss-led General 37 Was it becoming the sons of the lord of the Manor to go..mumping from their tenants, to relieve an irreclaimable spendthrift? 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. IV. 260 One prince came mumping to them annually with a lamentable story about his distresses. 1866Temple Bar XVII. 183 Having ‘mumped’ a small shop and several private houses.
In etym, for ‘Sense 2’ read: ‘Senses 2 and 3’. Add: 3. intr. Of the police: to accept small gifts or bribes: see *mumping vbl. n.2 2. slang.
1970P. Laurie Scotland Yard x. 248 Many policemen mump to some extent. |