English-Dutch translations for mutter

• gemompel
  In de tweede plaats is er niemand die acht slaat op het onbegrijpelijke gemompel van Europese leiders die niet over een mandaat en - vooral - niet over legitimiteit beschikken. Secondly, no one heeds the muted and incomprehensible mutterings of European leaders who have no mandate and, above all, no legitimacy.
• geroezemoes
• mompelen
• morren
  Ik denk dat veel collega's in zichzelf morren over de ontoereikendheid van de wetgevende bevoegdheden van de Europese Unie. I imagine people are muttering to themselves about the inadequacy of legislative powers.
• mummelen

Definition of mutter

• A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering
• To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath
• To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations
• To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise
• Peas

Examples

• The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter.
• You could hear the students mutter as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.
• The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.
• The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.
• April could hear the delivery vans engine muttering in the driveway.

Related words

• muttering
• mutterings
• mutter to oneself
• muttering to oneself
• start muttering