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Jabber vs Mutter - What's the difference?

jabber | mutter |

As verbs the difference between jabber and mutter

is that jabber is to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense while mutter is to utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.

As nouns the difference between jabber and mutter

is that jabber is rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish while mutter is a repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.

jabber

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
  • (label) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.}}

    Noun

    (-)
  • Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
    • (Jonathan Swift)

    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