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Mutter   /mˈətər/   Listen
verb
Mutter  v. t.  To utter with imperfect articulations, or with a low voice; as, to mutter threats.


Mutter  v. i.  (past & past part. muttered; pres. part. muttering)  
1.
To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complaints or angry expressions; to grumble; to growl. "Wizards that peep, and that mutter." "Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, And mutter to himself."
2.
To sound with a low, rumbling noise. "Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls."


noun
Mutter  n.  Repressed or obscure utterance.





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"Mutter" Quotes from Famous Books



... Owen's protection, came hastily in and made a clearance, Owen again reaching out his hand, which he laid on the child's head, so as to turn up the face towards him for a moment. Then releasing it almost immediately, he rested his chin on his hand, and Honor heard him mutter under his moustache, 'Flibbertigibbet!' ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... paces forward. We saw her first as a queen alone; next as a queen for the first time conscious of her subjects, and at the end, when her hands fluttered, as a woman delighted, awed not a little, but transfigured and illuminated with sheer, compelling affection and goodwill. I caught the broken mutter of welcome—the coo which is more than tornadoes of applause. It died and ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... is also fundamentally and eternally right and good that the pecuniary interests of the owners of the material means of life should rule unabated in all those matters of public policy that touch on the material fortunes of the community at large. Barring a slight and intermittent mutter of discontent, this arrangement has also the cordial approval of popular sentiment in these modern democratic nations. One need only recall the paramount importance which is popularly attached to the maintenance ...
— An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation • Thorstein Veblen
... which I shall never taste; Plums, cherries, ditto, ditto, which these maurauders waste— Who never will catch worms and flies, as smaller "warblers" do, But want precisely those nice things which grow for me and you! I muse on all their robberies, and mutter this fierce strain: Confound these odious "Robins," that have now ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, Issue 10 • Various
... she heard him mutter below his breath that it was very strange. She was surprised at his tone ...
— The Mormon Prophet • Lily Dougall


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