mismumble
verbEtymology From mis- + mumble.
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To mumble the wrong words.
- He was dictating dialogues between two American boys, and forcing his students to learn to mismumble them; just such expressions as we have all, no doubt, heard American boys use to each other daily.1917, Harry Alverson Franck, Vagabonding Down the Andes, page 446:
- In choir and cloister, gathering up dropped Syllables, mismumbled words dislodged From the liturgy by sinful clerics.2016, John Leonard, “Tittivillus”, in Think of the World: Collected Poems:
1 more example
- In a side remark intended for me, and which struck me like a shaft, Culpepper, as vain a fellow as ever mismumbled an author's lines, remarked to Miss Hatch that an elephant would stretch his chain to reach a bonbon.2019, Opie Percival Read, Bolanyo: