mutter
muh ter
- n a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech
- n a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone
- v talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
- v make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
- Four hours later, you finally arrive home, mutter something to your spouse about a late meeting and go to bed spent and ashamed.
- As Sarmad was led to his execution, he was heard to mutter lines of poetry: "There was an uproar, and we opened our eyes from eternal sleep," intoned the Sufi.
- It offers, instead, a steady mutter of eccentric situations and, better still, a whole bunch of glum and occasionally desperate characters whose depressive natures are hinted at .