mumblenews
English
Etymology
Noun
mumblenews (plural mumblenewses)
- (obsolete) A talebearer or gossip.
- 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,
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Synonyms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mumblenews”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)