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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



... he fancied he could hear rumbling noises in the distance, dull and threatening like the mutter-ings of thunder before a storm. There surely must be a storm raging down below at the foot of the mountains. He got up ...
— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne

... pulled in his head and scowled at his aunt, but he dared not disobey, and went out slowly with a sulky mutter. ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... run you out of camp, you iss so bad?" she asked me by way of greeting. Then, more kindly, "Your boy iss all right, the mutter also. I am come, though, to find you. It iss time you are home with the kinder. ...
— Letters on an Elk Hunt • Elinore Pruitt Stewart

... would be blasphemy—but of one great, yea, most high, Sackiema, by which name they—living without a king—call him who has the command over several hundred among them, and who by our people are called Sackemakers; and as the people listen, some will begin to mutter and shake their heads as if it were a silly fable; and others, in order to express regard and friendship for such a proposition, will say Orith (That is good). Now, by what means are we to lead this people to ...
— Narrative of New Netherland • Various

... too elevated to tread the common ground of fact and detail; it would touch nothing but generalities, for they alone are safe, harmless, and respectable; and, if they are also empty, how can that he helped? Starving, it shrank into itself, muttering old incantations; and it continued to mutter them, automatically, some ...
— Landmarks in French Literature • G. Lytton Strachey


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