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Mumble vs Maund - What's the difference?

mumble | maund |

As verbs the difference between mumble and maund

is that mumble is to speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate while maund is to beg.

As nouns the difference between mumble and maund

is that mumble is a quiet or unintelligible vocalization while maund is a wicker basket.

mumble

English

Verb

  • (intransitive) To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.
    • Please try not to mumble so I can hear you better.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Peace, you mumbling fool.
  • * Otway
    • A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, / Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
  • To chew something gently with closed lips.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * mumblage * mumblecore * mumblenews * mumbler * mumblety peg

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A quiet or unintelligible vocalization.
    • All I could hear was a mumble from the next room.
  • A low tone of voice.
    • ''He spoke in a mumble .

    maund

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) maunde, mande, from (etyl) mand, . Cognate with Dutch mand, (etyl) mande, archaic German Mande, later influenced by (etyl) and (etyl) mande (< (etyl)). Related to (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wicker basket.
  • A unit of capacity with various specific local values.

    • Etymology 2

    (wikipedia maund) Anglicised pronunciation of a word in many southern and western Asian languages. The -d probably from assimilation with Etymology 1 above, or from comparison with pound. : Original root is unclear, but may be (etyl) , "to measure". :: Possibly cognate with (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * mun * man

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A unit of weight in southern and western Asia, whose value varied widely by location. Two maunds made one chest of opium in East India. One maund equalled 136 pounds of opium in Turkey.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘In Flood Time’, In Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 410:
    • Now the rail has come, and the fire-carriage says buz-buz-buz'', and a hundred lakhs of ''maunds slide across that big bridge.
    Usage notes
    This spelling (maund ) is usually used for the unit in British India, equal to 25 pounds avoirdupois at Madras, 28 pounds avoirdupois at Bombay and 10 troy pounds at Calcutta. For the equivalent unit in the and in Persian- and Arabic-speaking countries, it is more usual to use the spelling mun'' or ''man (italicised to show that the word has not been assimilated into English).

    Etymology 3

    Unclear, but possibly from (etyl) mendier or , "to beg". Compare (etyl) mang, "to beg".

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) begging

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) to beg
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
  • (obsolete) To mutter; to mumble or speak incoherently; to maunder.

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