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16 words match “MUTTER”

MUTTER v. 4 definitions
istinct complains 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.
MUTTERER n.
One who mutters.
MUTTERINGLY adv.
With a low voice and indistinct articulation; in a muttering manner.
BEARD v.
iral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. Macaulay.
CHOWTER v.
To grumble or mutter like a froward child. [Obs.] E. Phillips.
GRUMBLE v. 2 definitions
To murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner. L'Avare, not using half his store, Still grumbles that he has no more. Prior.
MAMMER v.
To hesitate; to mutter doubtfully. [Obs.]
MAUND; MAUNDER v.
To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently. He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. Sir W. Scott.
MAUNDER v.
To utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter.
MUMBLE v.
to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. Peace, you mumbling fool. Shak. A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself. Otway.
MURMUR n.
A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden.
PATTER v. 2 definitions
To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips. Tyndale. Etym: [In this sense, and in the following, perh. from paternoster.]
PREVIOUS a.
angements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. (Parliamentary Practice) See under Question, and compare Closure. -- Previous to, before; -- often used adverbially for previously. "Previous to publication." M. Arnold. "A policy . .…
THROAT v.
To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats. [Obs.] Chapman.
UNQUESTIONED a.
Not interrogated; having no questions asked; not examined or examined into. Shak. She muttering prayers, as holy rites she meant, Through the divided crowd unquestioned went. Dryden.
WAN v.
o grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks. "All his visage wanned." Shak. And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair. Tennyson.