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| muttering | |
| 1. n. Something that is muttered. |  |
| I managed to catch a few of his mutterings. | |
| 2. n. A rumour. | |
| mutter | |
| 1. n. A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering. | |
| The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter. | |
| 2. v. 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. | |
| The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup. | |
| 3. v. 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. v. To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise. | |
| April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway. | |
| 5. n. (Indian cuisine) Peas. | |
