Definitions For Chunter

Verb

{{en-verb}} (British, dialect) To speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter. (British, dialect) To grumble, complain.

Translations

Czech: mrmlat Italian: sussurrare, bisbigliare Serbo-Croatian: мумлати, sc=Cyrl Czech: mrmlat French: se plaindre Italian: borbottare, brontolare

References

“D. H. Lawrence gave a new lease on life to the verb to chunter, ‘to mutter, complain’, labelled “Obs. exc. dial”, when he used it in Sea and Sardinia (1921)’,” Languages in Contact and Contrast: Essays in Contact Linguistics, by Vladimir Ivir, Damir Kalogjera, page 411 ()

Etymology

{{rfe, en}}