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to mump

to mump

9.9
To beg for food or money
  • verb
  • Archaic
translation icon : mendigar
  • He mumped outside the market for some change.

Examples

  • Don't mump at me for money!

  • It was common for the poor to mump during hard winters in the past.

  • In the old village, he would mump at the church door every Sunday morning.

  • Travelers sometimes mumped their way from town to town in search of food.

  • In the old village, he would mump at the church door every Sunday morning.

  • It was common for the poor to mump during hard winters in the past.

  • Don't mump at me for money!

Synonyms

to beg
vsto mump
153 1.0

Ask someone humbly for money or food, often in public

is used in old or dialect speech rather than modern usage
to panhandle
vsto mump
  • Informal
7 7.5

To ask people in public for money

is broader, covering asking for help in many places not only streets
to beg on one's knees
vsto mump
  • Informal
1 7.0

Ask someone for help or forgiveness while kneeling and looking very desperate

is less intense and lacks extreme desperation
to have one's hand out
vsto mump
  • Informal
1 8.8

To ask people for money by showing you need it

involves going about asking rather than merely expecting help
to have your hand out
vsto mump
  • Informal
8.2

To ask for money or help without trying to earn it

usually lacks active pleading and implies repeated entitlement

Antonyms

to give
∞ 1.0

To hand something to someone, for example a present

How Insistent

to importune
  • Formal
3 9.6
to plead
232 3.9
to mump
  • Archaic
9.9
to request
∞ 1.0
to ask
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

mump infinitive
mumped past
mumped past participle
mumping present participle
mumps third person singular

Etymology

Mump (verb, 'to beg') comes from the same old idea of quietly asking or 'mumbling' for help. So to mump is to go from place to place asking people for food or money.