Lexicographical Neighbors of Grumphing
Literary usage of Grumphing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tales and Sketches by James Hogg (1837)
"... an' putting a' things to rights ; an' my billies they'll be lying grumphing
and snoring i' their dens, an' Jeany will be lying waking, listening what's ..."
2. The Grey Man by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1896)
"All this while the loathly sow, that was at once provocation and offence, lay
upon a little mound in the midst of our camp, grunting and grumphing most ..."
3. Present-day Golf by George Duncan, Bernard Darwin (1921)
"Whether we are half-topping our pitches or taking them too heavy ("grumphing"
them, to use Mr. Guy Ellis's onomatopoeic verb), a bunker in front of us is ..."
4. Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1889)
"... And grumphing and grunting like ony auld coo— Though folks said the scandal,
they had na a doot, ..."
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