mutter

About 0.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.

   The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter.

2. verb To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.

   You could hear the students mutter as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.

3. verb To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.

   The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.

4. verb To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.

   April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway.

5. noun Peas.

Similar words

mussitate murmuring murmuration murmur mumble grumble grumbling maffle maunder croak

Often followed by

of to and something a in und that the

Word family

muttered mutterer mutterers muttering mutters