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Definition of Chuntering
1. chunter [v] - See also: chunter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chuntering
Literary usage of Chuntering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"Teacher chanters if they cough in school. He keeps a.-chuntering and a-grumbling.
CHU'CH,—for church : as " They couldn't get to chu'ch, nor nowt. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... of the waves on the beach hummed! through the utter darkness of his den, and
he understood it as well as if they spoke in words. "She's chuntering ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1893)
"... of the waves on the beach hummed through the utter darkness of his den, and
he understood it as well as if they spoke in words. “She's chuntering ..."
4. Highways and Byways in Derbyshire by John Benjamin Firth (1905)
"You can almost hear him chuntering as he stumbled up the dark road with Mrs.
Lomas quiet and triumphant on his arm. There was the usual sequel. ..."
5. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"See Catti- jugs. Chunter, v. to grumble at what has been said ; to have the last
word in a matter. chuntering, pros. part, murmuring ; fault-finding. ..."
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