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▪ I. grumbling, vbl. n.|ˈgrʌmblɪŋ|
[f. grumble v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. grumble; a low rumbling sound; a murmuring, a subdued utterance of discontent.
1610Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 249, I have done thee worthy service..without or Grudge or Grumblings. 1645Chas. I Let. to his Wife 4 May in Ludlow's Mem. (1699) III. 260 Wherefore I thought fit to put my Nephew Rupert in that Place; which will both save me Charge, and stop other Mens Grumblings. 1674Playford Skill Mus. i. v. 20 When you come to your highest Note you may reach it without Squeaking, and your lowest Note without Grumbling. 1767Hamilton in Phil. Trans. LVII. 200 We heard most dreadful inward grumblings, rattling of stones, and hissing. 1803Med. Jrnl. X. 501 Grumbling and contraction of the bowels. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 253 And after..some grumbling we procured them [horses], and departed. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 214 There was still some grumbling about ecclesiastical questions. 1884Athenæum 2 Aug. 139/3 [Southern Italy] is no land of comfort which the British paterfamilias should choose for the field of his annual grumbling at the foreigner. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 116/1 The grumbling of frogs along the shore.
▪ II. grumbling, ppl. a.|ˈgrʌmblɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That grumbles, in various senses. Of persons: Querulous, discontented.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 155 A grumlling [sic] groome. 1635Quarles Embl. iii. xi. 166 Thou..That through the deeps gav'st grumbling Isr'ell way. 1654Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 95 The Parisians are exeeding grumbling and the taxes promised to be abated are augmented. 1658J. Jones Ovid's Ibis 45 One viol set in tune and hanged in a room with others, being touched, the rest do sympathize with a grumbling sound. 1764Wesley Jrnl. 13 Jan. (1827) III. 153 Three or four grumbling men. 1795M. Edgeworth Lett. Lit. Ladies (1799) 111 If each bee were content in his cell, there could be no grumbling hive. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxxiv. 131 Low grumbling thunder was heard. 1935J. C. Thomson Appendicitis 21 If he [the surgeon] is to keep his death-rate low..he must operate in many normal conditions, but he must have a good excuse... Hence we have the ‘grumbling appendix’. 1966Lancet 10 Dec. 1308/2 If interaction is responsible for, say, a ‘grumbling’ appendix, the removal of the appendix will also remove the symptoms.
Hence ˈgrumblingly adv., in a grumbling manner; † mumblingly (obs.).
1685E. Browne Trav. Europe (ed. 2) 156 The Common & Country people seemed to speak grumblingly. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer xxxiii, Who viewed the West India station..grumblingly. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. iv. (1889) 32 The men..grumblingly confessed that he was a first-rate coxswain. 1886W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 398 He..will grumblingly throw well-weighed coppers into the collecting gipsy's plate. |