grumblingn.
/ˈɡrʌmblɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡrəmb(ə)lɪŋ/ The action of grumble v.; a low rumbling sound; a murmuring, a subdued utterance of discontent.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > roll or rumble
humblingc1384
bubblinga1398
hurlinga1398
grolling1398
rumblec1405
rumblingc1405
rolling1535
blumbering1556
roll1602
rumblement1604
grumblinga1616
lumbering1621
volutation1640
lumber1752
growlery1830
growl1833
growling1834
grumble1899
strumble1938
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > a complaint
plainta1275
groinc1374
complaintc1385
murmura1393
grutchc1460
plainc1475
yammer?a1513
puling?1529
objecting1552
obmurmuration1571
regratea1586
repine1593
grumblinga1616
grumble1623
dissatisfactionc1640
obmurmuring1642
rumbling1842
natter1866
grouch1895
beef1900
holler1901
squawk1909
moan1911
yip1911
grouse1918
gripe1934
crib1943
bitch1945
drip1945
kvetch1957
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 250 I haue done thee worthy seruice..Without or grudge, or grumblings . View more context for this quotation
1645 King Charles I Let. to Henrietta Maria 4 May in Mem. E. Ludlow (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.
1660 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 3) i. 19 When you come to your highest Note, you may reach it without Squeaking, and your lowest Note without Grumbling.
1768 W. Hamilton in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 200 We heard most dreadful inward grumblings, rattling of stones, and hissing.
1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 501 Grumbling and contraction of the bowels.
1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 253 And after..some grumbling we procured them [horses], and departed.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 214 There was still some grumbling about ecclesiastical questions.
1884 Athenæum 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.
1897 Outing 30 116/1 The grumbling of frogs along the shore.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
grumblingadj.
/ˈɡrʌmblɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡrəmb(ə)lɪŋ/ That grumbles, in various senses. Of persons: Querulous, discontented.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [adjective] > rolling or rumbling (of sound)
rumbling1542
grumblinga1616
growling1825
growly1920
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [adjective] > complaining
grutching?c1225
plaintivea1393
complainingc1430
plainteous1444
quarrellousc1450
murmurousa1525
murmuring1530
grudging?1531
yammeringc1540
complaintful1552
muttering1567
groanful1590
grumblinga1616
complaintive1637
quirking1746
complainant1791
twiney1824
maundering1848
nattered1853
grumbly1858
moany1867
grouchy1895
grumblesome1925
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. iii. 26 A grumlling [sic] groome.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. xi. 166 Thou..That, through the deeps, gav'st grumbling Isr'ell way.
1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 95 The Parisians are exeeding grumbling and the taxes promised to be abated are augmented.
1658 J. Jones tr. Ovid Invective against Ibis 45 One viol set in tune and hanged in a room with others, being touched, the rest do sympathize with a grumbling sound.
1764 J. Wesley Jrnl. 13 Jan. (1827) III. 153 Three or four grumbling men.
1799 M. Edgeworth Lett. Lit. Ladies (ed. 2) 111 If each bee were content in his cell, there could be no grumbling hive.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxiv. 131 Low grumbling thunder was heard.
1935 J. 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’.
1966 Lancet 10 Dec. 1308/2 If interaction is responsible for, say, a ‘grumbling’ appendix, the removal of the appendix will also remove the symptoms.
Derivatives
ˈgrumblingly adv. in a grumbling manner; †mumblingly (obsolete).
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adverb] > in a mumbling or indistinct manner
closely1564
mafflingly1565
thick1589
fumblingly1598
mumblingly1662
grumblingly1677
mutteringlyc1681
clippingly1849
amutter1856
splutteringly1941
splodgily1963
slurrily1969
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [adverb]
plainandly?c1450
repiningly1571
gruntingly1611
complainingly1626
querimoniously1649
groininglya1656
growlingly1803
grumblingly1836
murmuringly1866
grouchily1906
bitchingly1970
1677 E. Browne Acct. Trav. Germany 112 The Common and Country people seemed to speak grumblingly.
1836 E. Howard Rattlin xxxiii Who viewed the West India station..grumblingly.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iv. 63 The men..grumblingly confessed that he was a first-rate coxswain.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 398 He..will grumblingly throw well-weighed coppers into the collecting gipsy's plate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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