Muttering

Definition: Muttering

Muttering

Adjective

1. Speaking low and indistinctly; "a mumbling parson stood beside the dying man"; "muttering crowds of onlookers".

Noun

1. A low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech.

2. A complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone.

Date "muttering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Muttering

Synonyms: mumbling (adj), grumble (n), grumbling (n), murmur (n), murmuration (n), murmuring (n), mussitation (n), mutter (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Muttering

English words defined with "muttering": grumbling ♦ Mutteringly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "muttering": Backward Blessing. (references)

Etymologies containing "muttering": Mutter. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Exit muttering (reference) The Case of the Muttering Mummy (McGurk Mystery) (reference) Uttering, Muttering Collecting, Using & Reporting Talk for Social & Educational Research (reference) (more book examples)
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Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Blubbering; burble; chatter; clamor; drivel; gab; gabble; gibberish; jabber; jabbering; muttering; murmur; prattle; ranting; burbling; gabbing; horse; stallion.		Garble; dunno; garbled; garbling; mumbling; mutter; grumble; grumbling; muttering.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	From this sullen conflict, always muzzled but always muttering, is born armed peace, that ruinous expedient of civilisation suspected by herself.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Muttering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.75% of the time. "Muttering" is used about 343 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	94.75%	325	15,961
Noun (singular)	4.37%	15	90,616
Adjective (general or positive)	0.58%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	0.29%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	343	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "muttering": stooped-muttering.
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Language		Translations for "muttering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		murmuritje (gabble, grumble, mumble, mumbling, murmur), pëshpëritje (breath, mutter, susurration, whisper, whispering). (various references)

Arabic		‏مدمدم (growler), ‏غمغمة (buzz, splutter), ‏تمتمة (mumbling, murmur, mutter, stammer, stammering, stutter, stuttering), ‏دندنة (croon, drone, hum, mutter, singing). (various references)

Bulgarian		негодуване (mutter, resentment, revolt), мърморене (groan, growl, grumble, murmur, mutter, natter, rumble, rumbling, rumblings). (various references)

Chinese		嘟�" (mumble, mutter, Muttered). (various references)

Danish		mussiterende delirium (delirium mussitans, low muttering delirium), delirium mussitans (delirium mussitans, low muttering delirium). (various references)

Dutch		mussitatio (delirium mussitans, low muttering delirium), mussitatie (delirium mussitans, low muttering delirium), mompeldelirium (delirium mussitans, low muttering delirium), delirium mussitans (delirium mussitans, low muttering delirium), delirium blandum (delirium mussitans, low muttering delirium). (various references)

French		barbotant. (various references)

German		murren (bellyache, bellyaching, grumble, murmur, murmuring, mutter, repine, to repine), murmelnd (babbling, mumbling, murmuring), meckerei (grousing, grumbling, moaning), gemurmel (babble, burble, buzz, hum, humming, mumble, mumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter, mutterings). (various references)

Greek		ψελλιστικό παραλήρημα (delirium mussitans, low muttering delirium). (various references)

Hebrew		מלמול (chattering, jabbering, mumble, mumbling, mutter), לחיש�" (hiss, whispering). (various references)

Hungarian		motyogás (mumble, mumbling, mutter), morgás (bitch, crabbing, droning, grouch, grousing, growl, grumble, grumbling, grunt, mumbling, snarl), dörmögés (grousing, growl, grumble, grumbling, moan, mumbling). (various references)

Italian		brontolio (fuss, grumbling, murmur, rumble, rumbling). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		世迷言 (grumbling, nonsense). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		よまい�"と (grumbling, nonsense). (various references)

Manx		mynhaggloo, cabbaragh (bragging, chatter, chatty, gabbling, gibbering, prattler, quibble, quibbler). (various references)

Pig Latin		utteringmay

Portuguese		balbuciante (babbling, mumbling, stammering, stuttering), balbuciação (babble, babbling, mumble, mumbling, mutter, prattle, stammer, stammering, stutter, stuttering). (various references)

Romanian		mormãit (groan, growl, grumbling, grunt, mumble, mumbling, mutter, muttered, snarl), boscorodealã. (various references)

Russian		ворчание (growl, grumble, grunt, murmur, mutter), бормотание (burble, gabble, haw, mumble, mumbling, mutter). (various references)

Scottish		pronndal. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mrmljanje (falderal, mumble, mumbling, mutter). (various references)

Spanish		murmullo (babble, babbling, buzz, hum, murmur, murmuring, mutter, purl, ripple). (various references)

Swedish		muttrande (mumbling, murmur, mutter), knotrande (mutter). (various references)

Turkish		mırıldanma (grumbling, rhubarb), homurdanan (doggish, grouser, grumbling), fısıldama (whispering). (various references)

Ukrainian		мимрення (groan), бурчання (croak, growl, grunt, mutter, nag, nagging, scolding), далекий гуркіт (mutter). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Muttering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mottarone, murthering, muteing, smuttering. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "muttering" (pronounced mu"tering)
5	-u" t er i ng	cluttering, fluttering, guttering, puttering, shuttering, sputtering, stuttering, uttering.
4	-t er i ng	administering, altering, bantering, bartering, battering, bettering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, catering, centering, chartering, chattering, clustering, countering, doctoring, encountering, entering, factoring, faltering, festering, filibustering, filtering, flattering, fostering, frittering, glittering, hectoring, lettering, littering, loitering, mastering, mentoring, metering, mitering, monitoring, motoring, mustering, nattering, neutering, pestering, petering, plastering, reentering, registering, scattering, sculpturing, sequestering, shattering, sheltering, slaughtering, smattering, spattering, splintering, sweltering, teetering, tottering, tutoring, unflattering, watering.
3	-er i ng	anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, belaboring, beleaguering, bewildering, bickering, blundering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, censoring, clamoring, clobbering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doddering, embroidering, empowering, endangering, endeavoring, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, figuring, fingering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, foundering, fracturing, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glowering, grandfathering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, levering, lingering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, maundering, meandering, measuring, minoring, mirroring, mongering, mothering, murdering, murmuring, neighboring, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scouring, severing, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, simmering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spiering, sponsoring, squandering, staggering, structuring, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, towering, transpiring, triggering, uncovering, unwavering, ushering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-m-n-r-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: uttering.
	-2 letters: gittern, grutten, guttier, metring, minuter, nuttier, retting, rutting, terming, trueing, turgent, turgite, unmiter, unmitre.
	-3 letters: engirt, gunite, gurnet, gutter, iterum, meting, minter, minuet, minute, mitten, murein, murine, muring, mutine, muting, mutter, nutmeg, nutter, regnum, remint, retint, tenuti, tergum, tinter, titmen, triune, truing, ungirt, uniter, untrim, urgent.
	-4 letters: grime, grume, grunt, inert, inter.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-i-m-n-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: trumpeting.
	+2 letters: unremitting.
	+3 letters: menstruating, resubmitting.
	+4 letters: argumentation, argumentative, instrumenting, integumentary, mouthwatering, restimulating, unremittingly.
	+5 letters: argumentations, disgruntlement, tumorigenicity, ultimogeniture.
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