Noun: mutter
| Singular | mutter |
| Plural | mutters |
Sample Sentences
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The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter.
Nouns inflected like mutter
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English muteren, moteren, of imitative origin.
2. Compare Low German mustern, musseln (“to whisper”), German muttern (“to mutter; whisper”), Old Norse muðla (“to murmur”). Compare also Latin muttīre, mutīre. See: Old Norse Nouns '
muðla', Latin Nouns '
muttīre'.
Verbs referencing "mutter"
Latin Nouns
muttum.