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chunter, v.|ˈtʃʌntə(r)|
Also 6 chunner, 7 chounter, 9 chunder.
[App. of imitative formation.]
To mutter, murmur; to grumble, find fault, complain. Also in extended use.
1599Broughton's Lett. x. 35 Your heyfer..must..wander alone and chunner out an Heathenish conceit of descending into the world of soules poetically. c1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Chounter, to talk pertly, and (sometimes) angrily. 1788Marshall Provinc. E. Yorksh. (E.D.S. Repr. Gloss.), Chunter..to express discontent about trifles. 1847–78Halliwell, Chunter..also spelt chunner and chunder. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. II. 117 Th' capt'n went away chunterin'. 1921D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia iv. 135 A thin old woman..was chuntering her head off because it was her seat. 1949C. Fry Lady's not for Burning 27 You..fog-blathering, Chin-chuntering, liturgical,..base old man! 1955D. Barton Glorious Life i. 19 Paul's telephone rang... There was long chuntering on the wire. 1957‘N. Shute’ On Beach i. 2 The baby stirred, and started chuntering and making little whimpering noises. 1965Spectator 5 Mar. 295/3 An old man..chunters a bit of folk tune which the solo horn dreamily perpetuates. 1968Autocar 25 Jan. 27/2 The Herald ‘chunters’ straight across the road in front of us.
Hence chuntering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1832Mrs. Toogood Yorksh. Dial. (1863) He is a chuntering sort of fellow, never contented. 1876Whitby Gloss., ‘A chuntering bout’, a fit of sulkiness with impertinence. |