muttersome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From mutter +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

muttersome (comparative more muttersome, superlative most muttersome)

  1. 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.

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