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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mutter
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mumble/mutter an apology (=say it quietly, especially because you are embarrassed)
▪ He bumped into me and mumbled an apology.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
darkly
▪ Brother Salvator Rivera cleared up the untouched dishes at nine P.M., muttering darkly about the waste of food.
▪ He glared back ferociously so they reverted to the cakes, muttering darkly.
■ NOUN
breath
▪ Greatly relieved, he muttered under his breath and crossed himself several times.
▪ He muttered something beneath his breath about the blessings of the blind.
▪ She was darting back and forth across the clutter on the floor, tweaking cords and muttering beneath her breath.
▪ Sheridan muttered under his breath several times, making the people he was sitting with uncomfortable.
▪ He was ill-washed and stubble-chinned and he muttered beneath his breath.
▪ But the Tarvarian only muttered something under his breath, and spat left and right.
curse
▪ Mirabilis continued to stab the picture, muttering low-voiced curses, looking up at the walls where the pigeon was still standing.
▪ She cast her eyes skywards, muttering soft curses.
▪ I shivered and muttered a curse.
▪ He held his hand in the air, muttering Swahili curses as I wound the fabric round.
▪ Sir John had then stamped off, muttering curses about public officials who didn't seem to care.
word
▪ As always, he muttered incomplete words, unfinished sentences.
▪ Robbie muttered the words under her breath.
▪ If they have the Blackshard with them, the Oracle will simply mutter some words of warning and vague threat.
▪ She accepted the glass and muttered a word of thanks.
▪ He muttered a few words and his companions chuckled.
■ VERB
begin
▪ She began to mutter again and he leaned forward to listen.
▪ He settled back, shut his eyes, began to mutter.
▪ He began softly to mutter the final act of contrition to himself.
hear
▪ As I worked at my translations I heard him mutter and grunt at his desk.
▪ Behind me, as I rang for the elevator, I heard muttering.
▪ For four weeks we have heard telecasters mutter about the margin of error.
▪ Good, Cassius heard himself mutter, but knew he had meant Bad.
▪ As one of them turned away Carrington heard him mutter something, undoubtedly obscene.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ ""Why do I have to do all the work?'' she muttered.
▪ "Sometimes she is such a pain," Jake muttered.
▪ Grant went out, muttering something about having to see a client.
▪ He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week.
▪ They both muttered something about homework and walked away.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He muttered something inaudible and withdrew.
▪ He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week.
▪ I muttered something about helping and followed her out.
▪ Sometimes her lips moved and she muttered something in a low tone.
▪ There has been much muttering among the aggrieved franchisees about the possibility of legal action.
▪ They muttered comments and corrections to each other.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mutter

Mutter \Mut"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Muttered; p. pr. & vb. n. Muttering.] [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. L. muttire, mutire.]

  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.
    --Is. viii. 19.

    Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, And mutter to himself.
    --Dryden.

  2. To sound with a low, rumbling noise.

    Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls.
    --Pope.

Mutter

Mutter \Mut"ter\, v. t. To utter with imperfect articulations, or with a low voice; as, to mutter threats.
--Shak.

Mutter

Mutter \Mut"ter\, n. Repressed or obscure utterance.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mutter

early 14c., moteren "to mumble," from a common PIE imitative *mut- "to grunt, mutter" (cognates: Old Norse muðla "to murmur," Latin muttire "to mutter," Old High German mutilon "to murmur, mutter; to drizzle"), with frequentative suffix -er. Related: Muttered; muttering.

mutter

1630s, from mutter (v.).

Wiktionary
mutter

n. 1 A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering. 2 (context in Indian restaurants English) peas vb. To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.

WordNet
mutter
  1. n. a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech [syn: muttering, murmur, murmuring, murmuration, mussitation]

  2. a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone [syn: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, muttering]

  3. v. talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice [syn: mumble, maunder, mussitate]

  4. make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked" [syn: murmur, grumble, croak, gnarl]

Wikipedia
Mutter (album)

Mutter (German for "mother") is the third album by Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. It was released on April 2, 2001 through Motor Music. The album's cover image is a photograph of a dead fetus, which was taken by Daniel & Geo Fuchs. Overall the album has spawned six singles which is, by far, the most singles released from any Rammstein album.

Mutter (song)

"Mutter" ( German for mother) is a song by Rammstein on the album of the same name.

Mütter

Mütter is the fourth studio album released by Maria Doyle Kennedy on Mermaid Records in 2007. It was produced and recorded by Kieran Kennedy and all songs were written by both Maria Doyle Kennedy and Kieran Kennedy. Other songwriters credited on the album include Dave Clarke, Peter O’Toole and Fergus O’Farrell. Maria Doyle Kennedy also illustrated the album’s artwork.

Mutter (software)

Mutter is a window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, and recently has evolved to be a Wayland compositor. It became the default window manager in GNOME 3, replacing Metacity which used GTK+ for rendering. Mutter uses a graphics library called Clutter giving it OpenGL capability. The name is a portmanteau of Metacity and Clutter.

Mutter can function as standalone window manager for GNOME-like desktops, and serves as the primary window manager for the GNOME Shell, which is an integral part of GNOME 3. Mutter is extensible with plugins and supports numerous visual effects. GNOME Shell is written as a plugin to Mutter. Gala, a core component of the Pantheon desktop environment, is built using libmutter. Budgie-wm, used in the Budgie desktop environment, is another window manager built on libmutter.

Mutter (surname)

Mutter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Anne-Sophie Mutter, classical violinist
  • Carol Mutter, U.S. Marine lieutenant general
  • Edda Mutter (born 1970), German alpine skier
  • Robert Mutter, American politician
  • Scott Mutter, American photographer
  • Stefan Mutter, Swiss cyclist
  • George Muter, early chief justice of Kentucky

Usage examples of "mutter".

The wound was still abscessed, its dressing changed twice a day, but now Harper and Isabella had to wipe the sweat that poured from Sharpe and listen to the ravings that he muttered day and night.

Now, he was muttering about things called acupressure and shiatsu while he worked on and around it.

Caderousse, waving his hand in token of adieu to Danglars, and bending his steps towards the Allees de Meillan, moving his head to and fro, and muttering as he went, after the manner of one whose mind was overcharged with one absorbing idea.

Little monkeys, she muttered affectionately, recalling the scene which had been enacted in the driveway a short while before.

She muttered to herself about titanium twits and agoraphobic asses as she prepared to leave the tug.

The lanky slicer was peering through an access panel with his magnispecs flipped down, manipulating a micrograbber in each hand and muttering to himself in a high-pitched, staccato manner that sounded alarmingly like machine code.

Master Algologist Dephliny muttered, adjusting the microswitch implanted above his left occipital arch to quell the shaking in his right hand.

Sie war die Mutter aller dieser Geschehnisse, sie, nicht weniger als Arianrhod.

Lovers mutter wetly to each other and grapple with an abandon that still appalled her.

OUT fully clothed on her bed under a fuzzy blanket stamped with a Hilton Hotel imprint, Arra muttered an incoherent protest and immediately went to sleep.

Had the Wise Ones been less snappish, she might have tried to spend time reading in her tent, but the one time she touched a book except at night by lamplight, Bair muttered so about girls wasting their days lying about lazily that Egwene murmured that she had forgotten something and scurried out of the tent before she was found something more useful to do.

He could hear Baldric muttering under his breath, pausing, then resuming his pacing again.

Was there more unrest, more muttering in the cities and banditry in the countryside?

Now he muttered, and Cormac, understanding no word, knew that Bas spoke in the Old Tongue that only druids knew.

Carly went back to the kitchen, Beanie had dragged himself to the porch where the twins squatted next to him, muttering in low worried tones.