Verb (used with object) : to mutter complaints. From Dictionary.com.
I am a bit of a mutterer to myself anyway, and my harshest critic. From Wordnik.com. [Gift From Randy « Fairegarden] Reference
I confess I was not really impressed by this angry, long-haired, bearded mutterer. From Wordnik.com. [The Coveted Thelma Award, part one] Reference
And it's not as if Julie Klam is magic with animals -- she thinks of herself as "the dog mutterer.". From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: How Much Does Julie Klam Love Dogs? You Had Me At Woof] Reference
Via Wonkette comes the news that former Virginia senator and mutterer of racist exotica George Allen is going to be writing a book, and that. From Wordnik.com. [Elon James White: This Week in Blackness: Black Kids Shouldn't Be at Your Pool] Reference
She was a mutterer and no one could ever tell if she was really saying anything or just making a little white noise for herself, like a nesting bird. From Wordnik.com. [Again to Carthage] Reference
Next to them was the statutory mutterer, a bespectacled middle-aged man who looked as though he had been collecting nervous tics as a hobby since early childhood. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away]
The couple and the mutterer were thrown forward into the gap between the seats, while those in the aisles fell to the floor or on top of the seated passengers on either side. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away]
Her boyfriend sprawled sideways, nose streaming with blood after the mutterer's head struck him, the mutterer himself slumped against the old woman's knees like a marionette. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away]
She let her focus blur by staring at the snow, while around her the kissers squelched, the mutterer burbled and the sprog finally ended the tension by wiping a palm on her thigh. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away]
In 1323 Edward II. writes to Louis de Beaumont, bishop of Durham, reproaching a noble like him for not defending his bishopric any better against the Scotch than if he were a mutterer of prayers like his predecessor. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
As I told you (Ms Toynbee) once before, Brown is a 'mutterer in dark corners', now that he has the glare of publicity upon him, he is found wanting, this comes as no surprise to me and shouldn't to you, I warned you about it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
He turned on the nearest mutterer -- "Your knife!". From Wordnik.com. [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference
This was Antony who ruled once, this mutterer dying, whom no one loves enough to kill. From Wordnik.com. [William Shakespeare] Reference
His comrade was insensible, and as Murray bent over the mutterer a fresh chill of horror ran through him as he thought of his position. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop] Reference
The dear beloved mutterer and avoider who had a treasury Secretary so incompetent that he even allowed Allan Greenspan to use words like "froth". From Wordnik.com. [The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] Reference
This while, to the same place came his orison-mutterer impaletocked, or lapped up about the chin like a tufted whoop, and his breath pretty well antidoted with store of the vine-tree-syrup. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference
The Hall of Fame catcher and serial mutterer of observations that sort of made sense settled into coaching and seemed destined to be an eternal background fixture to multiple firings of Billy Martin when George Steinbrenner, forever in search of good publicity, remembered Berra won that pennant for the Mets in 1973. From Wordnik.com. [Faith and Fear in Flushing] Reference
"It pleases my Highness principally to be obeyed, old mutterer. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Chair]
Best prepaid credit card thoroughfare vacuo:revisionary previews mutterer?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Moving Tribute:] Reference
The stumbling mutterer who forgot that he wanted fries twice and changed his toppings twice and said his order was to go to go all to go four times the woman and her four kids spilling forth from an SUV. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference
The mutterer from the rear spoke up again. From Wordnik.com. [Mary, Mary]
But old mutterer can't let it go. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
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