Akademik

gumming

noun

ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)

• Syn: ↑mumbling

• Derivationally related forms: ↑gum, ↑mumble (for: ↑mumbling)

• Hypernyms: ↑chew, ↑chewing, ↑mastication, ↑manduction

Useful english dictionary. 2012.