mumbling word
US (originally and chiefly in African-American usage)
noun
(In negative contexts) a single word, any word at all.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Crucifixion. Now chiefly after the use in the spiritual ‘Crucifixion’ (also called ‘He never said a Mumbling Word’): see quot. 1913.
- Berry, Chuck
- Berryman, John
- bersagliere
- berseem clover
- berserk
- berserker
- berth
- bertha
- berthing
- Bertillon, Alphonse
- Bertolucci, Bernardo
- be running on empty
- be run off one's feet
- be rushed (or run) off one's feet
- Berwickshire
- Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Berwyn
- beryl
- berylliosis
- beryllium
- Berzelius, Jöns Jakob
- Bes
- Besant, Annie
- Besançon
- be saved by the bell