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Gumming

noun
1.
Ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth).  Synonym: mumbling.





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"Gumming" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the maiz is taken and cut into pieces of the required size. Into this he sprinkles a small portion of strong tobacco and rolling it into a thin roll in a certain dexterous way, smokes it without necessity of gumming or fastening the edge. These cigarettes have a distinctive and agreeable taste and aroma, and the foreigner who has grown accustomed to them will certainly find nothing superior in the machine-made cigarettes of the United States or Great Britain—especially ...
— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock
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... 'ticky," cried the savage, gumming his face gloriously and grinding up the biscuit as easily as if it ...
— King o' the Beach - A Tropic Tale • George Manville Fenn
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Words linked to "Gumming" :   gum, chewing, chew, mumbling, mastication, manduction


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