mumbler

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From mumble + -er.

A little older, a little colder: and already are they mystifiers, and mumblers and mollycoddles. — Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Hell, Hell, D--; Poet Sorry-head, Mumbler of the Royal Spanish Satiety, of the Satieties of every other place, of the Royal Order of Turncoats, and of an eminent Welch Obscurity {236} A NEW VISION, By ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq.! — Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects, William Hone
They are, answered Xenomanes, all hypocrites, holy mountebanks, tumblers of beads, mumblers of ave-marias, spiritual comedians, sham saints, hermits, all of them poor rogues who, like the hermit of Lormont between Blaye and Bordeaux, live wholly on alms given them by passengers. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

mutterer, murmurer

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