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Grumbling   /grˈəmbəlɪŋ/  /grˈəmblɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Grumble  v. t.  To express or utter with grumbling.


Grumble  v. i.  (past & past part. grunbled; pres. part. grumbling)  
1.
To murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner. "L'Avare, not using half his store, Still grumbles that he has no more."
2.
To growl; to snarl in deep tones; as, a lion grumbling over his prey.
3.
To rumble; to make a low, harsh, and heavy sound; to mutter; as, the distant thunder grumbles.





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"Grumbling" Quotes from Famous Books



... was in no state to be taken on a journey, and her mother went grumbling down the stair at the unchancy ...
— Grisly Grisell • Charlotte M. Yonge
... arrayed himself. The wife and daughter of the prisoner were heard by the sentinels scolding the supposed cobbler for having done his work ill, and the man came out with his hat slouched over his eyes, and grumbling, as if at the manner in which they had treated him. In this way the prisoner passed all the guards without suspicion, and made his escape to France. He was afterwards outlawed by the Court of Justiciary, which proceeded to the trial of Duncan MacGregor, or Drummond, ...
— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... asleep on his blanket, was awakened by the shots. Listening further, he heard a great cry from some man in mortal distress or anguish, and rose up grumbling at the ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry
... the poor; the Priory was always so full of ould men and ould women sitting around the big fire in the kitchen that the cook could hardly get near it. There they were, eating their meals and burning their shins till they were speckled like a trout's back, and grumbling all the time; but Father Dwyer liked them, and ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... The people went on grumbling, but they covered their food, since they must do so or lose it. And they had to admit that there was much less sickness from that ...
— Across the Fruited Plain • Florence Crannell Means


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