Murmur
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to speak or make low, indistinguishable noise; to mumble to utter words indistinctily; to mutter to grumble, complain, utter complaints in a low, muttering voice, or express complaint or discontent in general (+ or ) to utter indistinctly, mutter
Part of speech: noun
Definition: (countable) Low or indistinct sounds or speech. The sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart. A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression of complaint or discontent
Example sentence: It's not hard to see how accusations against Trump as a racist and misogynist would be met with eye rolls and knowing murmurs of 'political correctness' by people who have had their worldview constantly caricatured and demonized by the cultural elites in academia, media and politics.
Gnarl
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to knot or twist somethingto snarl or growl; to gnar
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.The average value of the magnitude squared of the curl of a vector field over a continuous path that is tangent to the vector field at every point. In mathematical notation, gnarl is represented by the lowercase Greek letter ΞΎ.