"mimmering" meaning in English

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        "1": "\"to ponder\"; > Modern Dutch <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"nl\">mijmeren</i> (“to ponder, muse”)"
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        "4": "to remember, commemorate"
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  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Possibly an alteration of mammering; or a derivation from earlier unrecorded *mimmer, from Middle Dutch mimmeren, mīmeren (\"to ponder\"; > Modern Dutch mijmeren (“to ponder, muse”)); or perhaps representing a continuation of Old English mymerian, mimorian (“to remember, commemorate”). See also mammer, mimmerkin.",
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    {
      "form": "more mimmering",
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      "form": "most mimmering",
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          "text": "A half-brain'd loon! A mimmering driveller!",
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        "Doting; dreaming; mammering."
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          "dreaming",
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          "mammering",
          "mammering"
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  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Possibly an alteration of mammering; or a derivation from earlier unrecorded *mimmer, from Middle Dutch mimmeren, mīmeren (\"to ponder\"; > Modern Dutch mijmeren (“to ponder, muse”)); or perhaps representing a continuation of Old English mymerian, mimorian (“to remember, commemorate”). See also mammer, mimmerkin.",
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      "form": "more mimmering",
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