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muttersome en · ADJ

Etymology

From mutter + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by muttering
   • 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. 2015, Bruce Olds, Raising Holy Hell:
   • 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), [...] 2011, Susan Musgrave, Cargo of Orchids:
   • 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. 2014, Nick Cutter, The Troop:

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mumblesome