mumblage
nounEtymology From mumble + -age.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Often, Slang Mumbled or imprecise remarks, especially remarks which are trivial or unreliable.
- As to the mumblage on "race", since there exists no well defined meaning of the word, depending on how one defines it, one can imagine a group which will prove one's point, whichever one wishes to prove.2001 April 18, KPJ (kpj@sics.se), "Re: Made in China," mail archive at extropians.weidai.com (retrieved 10 June 2014)
- Mostly idiotic mumblage about how Paul McCartney was dead and had been replaced by a robot.2005 May 8, Citizen Arcane, ""Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine"," CitizenArcane.com (retrieved 10 June 2014)
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- We are in the cross-hairs of a customer who has accepted our original flawcharts and mumblage (which I pursued with bewilderment), so for my own conscience I would like to complete the project with something that is 'right.'2006 Jan. 16, Richard Cleis (rcleis at mac.com), "[plt-scheme] Diagrams," lists.racket-lang.org (retrieved 10 June 2014)
- If all you've been given is some mumblage about "portability", ask the dipstick who's telling you to do this to provide you with solid numbers.2007 Sept. 20, John Bode, "C/C++ guidelines," velocityreviews.com (retrieved 10 June 2014)
- Most of the other legalese mumblage is about patent protection and so on.2008 January 3, Richard Teer, “RE: avr-lib-c-extentions^([sic]) library”, in Discussion of development of avr-libc / comments.gmane.org, retrieved 10 Jun 2014:
- I get some vague mumblage about charging more for folks who major in things that aren’t something such as anthropology, arts or theater.2012 December 15, “Cheap Sheepskin”, in Blog: Simple Country Physicist, retrieved 10 Jun 2014:
- Synonyms
- muttering