German

Noun

Nuscheln n ‎(genitive Nuschelns, no plural)

1. gerund of nuscheln; mumbling (speech unintelligible due to a lack of enunciation)

Declension

German

Verb

nuscheln ‎(third-person singular simple present nuschelt, past tense nuschelte, past participle genuschelt, auxiliary haben)

1. to mumble (to speak with lacking enunciation)

   Das ist kein Dialekt, das ist nur genuscheltes Hochdeutsch.

   This is not a dialect, it’s just mumbled standard German.

Usage notes

• Nuscheln is distinct from murmeln (“to speak with lacking audibility”).
• The verbs nuscheln and wuscheln seem to be the only two German words of native origin in which the sound [ʒ] is heard.

Conjugation