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noun
- A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.
- The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a .
- (in Indian restaurants) peas
verb
- To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.
- You could hear the students as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.
- The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.
- To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
- The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.
- To make a sound with a low, rumble, rumbling noise.
- April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway near the kitchens.
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