Mutter
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.
To sound with a low, rumbling noise.
To utter with imperfect articulations, or with a low voice; as, to mutter threats.
Repressed or obscure utterance.
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Mutter Quotations
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthur
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Sophocles
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
James Thurber
Mutter Translations
mutter in Dutch is morren, brommen, mompelen, mummelen
mutter in Finnish is kohista
mutter in French is barbotez, murmurer, barbotent, barboter, barbotons
mutter in German is murmeln
mutter in Latin is mussito
mutter in Spanish is murmullo
mutter in Swedish is mummel, mumla, muttra
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