mumblenews en · NOUN
Etymology
From mumble + news.
Meanings
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(obsolete) A gossiper.
Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany, / Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,
c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, scene 2, lines 463–464:Well said, you mumblenews from Kolistin. Well said!
2017 [1870], Douglas Robinson, transl., The Brothers Seven, Bucharest: Zeta Books, translation of Seitsemän veljestä by Aleksis Kivi (in Finnish), page 330:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mumblenewses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |