Mumble vs Squawk - What's the difference?
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(intransitive) To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.
* Shakespeare
* Otway
To chew something gently with closed lips.
A quiet or unintelligible vocalization.
A low tone of voice.
A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call.
(aviation) A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals.
(aviation) An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance.
The American night heron.
To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.
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To speak out; to protest.
To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret.
(aviation) To set or transmit a four-digit transponder code.
Mumble is a related term of squawk.
As verbs the difference between mumble and squawk
is that mumble is (intransitive) to speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate while squawk is to make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.As nouns the difference between mumble and squawk
is that mumble is a quiet or unintelligible vocalization while squawk is a shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call.mumble
English
Verb
- Please try not to mumble so I can hear you better.
- Peace, you mumbling fool.
- A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, / Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* mumblage * mumblecore * mumblenews * mumbler * mumblety pegNoun
(en noun)- All I could hear was a mumble from the next room.
- ''He spoke in a mumble .
squawk
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.