muttersome
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Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
muttersome (comparative more muttersome, superlative most muttersome)
- Characterised or marked by muttering
- 2011, Susan Musgrave, Cargo of Orchids:
- On the day following my arrest, my hair would be described as “torrential” on the front page of every newspaper in North America (it had rained that morning, and a muttersome wind had followed me from the detention centre to the courthouse), [...]
- 2014, Nick Cutter, The Troop:
- Wind howled along the earth, attaining a voice as it gusted around the rocks and spindly trees: a low muttersome sound like children whispering at the bottom of a well.
- 2015, Bruce Olds, Raising Holy Hell:
- It was cold beyond knowing, and the skies were too often downcast and muttersome, and it was hard to find the purchase to grow things upon the rocks.