mumblenews
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editmumblenews (plural mumblenewses)
- (obsolete) A gossiper.
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, scene 2, lines 463–464:
- Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany, / Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,
- 2017 [1870], Douglas Robinson, transl., The Brothers Seven, Bucharest: Zeta Books, translation of Seitsemän veljestä by Aleksis Kivi (in Finnish), page 330:
- Well said, you mumblenews from Kolistin. Well said!
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edit- “mumblenews”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.