All 4 Uses of
utter
in
Do You Speak American?
- At a news conference in London a few years ago, Prince Charles uttered another of those testy cultural pronunciamentos so endearing to his future subjects.†
Chpt Intr. *uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- The beach culture had developed long before the Beach Boys released their first Top 40 hit, "Surfin' Safari," in 1962, and Jan and Dean their "Surf City" in 1963, with their utterly hedonistic message: Yeah, and there's two swingin' honeys for every guy And all you gotta do is just wink your eye These and other songs the Beach Boys Web site now calls "eternal anthems of American youth," and the millions of records they sold helped spread what had been to aficionados not just a sport but a whole way of life, lived on the beach, salt-caked and suntanned, with their own insider vocabulary.†
Chpt 7 *utterly = completely or totally
- William Labov points out that FDR also pronounced the "t"s in words such as utter and shattering in the British way, not blurring the "t"s almost into "d"s [udder and shaddering) as many of his countrymen did, and do.†
Chpt 3
- They ask the caller to utter a small range of words in answer to simple questions like What city?†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)
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(2)
(utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, and archaically, utter can mean to let out.