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mumblenews en · NOUN

Etymology

From mumble + news.

Meanings

  1. (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

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Synonyms

gossiper