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- mutter (v.)[mutter 词源字典]
- early 14c., moteren "to mumble," from a common PIE imitative *mut- "to grunt, mutter" (cognates: Old Norse muðla "to murmur," Latin muttire "to mutter," Old High German mutilon "to murmur, mutter; to drizzle"), with frequentative suffix -er. Related: Muttered; muttering.[mutter etymology, mutter origin, 英语词源]
- mutter (n.)
- 1630s, from mutter (v.).