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Gibber vs Mutter - What's the difference?

gibber | mutter |

As nouns the difference between gibber and mutter

is that gibber is gibberish, unintelligible speech or gibber can be a boulder, a stone or gibber can be a balky horse while mutter is .

As a verb gibber

is to jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.

gibber

English

Etymology 1

Uncertain; see gibberish.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Gibberish, unintelligible speech.

    • Verb

  • To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A boulder, a stone.
    • See also
    * reg, desert pavement

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A balky horse.
    • (Youatt)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    mutter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.
    • The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter .
  • (in Indian restaurants) peas

    • Derived terms

    * mutter paneer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 28 , author=Jamie Jackson , title=Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
    • The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.
  • * Dryden
    • Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, / And mutter to himself.
  • To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
    • April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls.

    Synonyms

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