Definizione monolingua

mutter

mutter (third-person singular simple present mutters, present participle muttering, simple past and past participle muttered)

1. To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under ones 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.

2. To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.

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

3. To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.

   April could hear the delivery vans engine muttering in the driveway near the kitchens.

mutter (plural mutters)

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

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

2. (in Indian restaurants) peas

Definizione dizionario mutter

borbottare

borbottio

brontolare

mormorare

protestare

Altri significati:

make a low sound

speak incoherently

A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.

instance of muttering

To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.

To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.

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

speak under one's breath

(in Indian restaurants) peas