英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmʌtə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈmʌtɚ/, [ˈmʌɾɚ]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈmɐtə/
• 韻: -ʌtə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: mut‧ter

語源 1

From 中期英語 muteren, moteren, of imitative origin.

Compare Low German mustern, musseln (“to whisper”), German muttern (“to mutter; whisper”), Old Norse muðla (“to murmur”). Compare also Latin muttīre, mutīre.

名詞

mutter (plural mutters)

1. A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.

   The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter.

動詞

mutter (third-person singular simple present mutters, present participle muttering, simple past and past participle muttered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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 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.

   • 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian‎:

     This set – the set of Rosol's life – was studded with aces and menacing ground-strokes that left Nadal an impotent spectator often muttering to himself and at the umpire regarding a perceived misdemeanour by his opponent.

2. To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.

   The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.

   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

     Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, / And mutter to himself.

3. To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.

   April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway.

   • 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book VIII”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

     Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls.

同意語

• (speak under one's breath): growl, grumble, mumble
• (speak incoherently): babble, mumble, murmur, ramble, stutter
• (make a low sound): growl, putter, rumble
• See also Thesaurus:mutter

派生語

語源 2

From Hindi मटर (maṭar).

別の表記

• matar

名詞

mutter

1. (Indian cuisine) Peas.

派生語

• mutter paneer