Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To grumble; mutter; complain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb UK, dialect To speak in a soft, indistinct manner,
mutter . - verb UK, dialect To
grumble ,complain .
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Examples
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Sound on 18 Doughty Street is mainly some sentences by one person and then cluck chunter chunter squak cluck cluk "so I think..." chunter, "But not withstanding" chunter,chunter.
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It allowed them to chunter on about tapping-up and betrayal.
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Sorry, just my opinion. chunter said at 10am on Apr 7th # |
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I cannot manage to find any substance on the UKIP website about what they have actually done in the last five years, other than chunter away about why the EU is always wrong.
Europoll 2009
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It allowed them to chunter on about tapping-up and betrayal.
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I cannot manage to find any substance on the UKIP website about what they have actually done in the last five years, other than chunter away about why the EU is always wrong.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Particularly if you have access to Sky Sports News, the home of Transfer Deadline Day and a rolling source of sports chunter that for one day only becomes suddenly vital, the centre of its own frantically compelling universe.
Transfer deadline day's hype is over, long live the quavering hype | Barney Ronay 2011
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He has never bored of it, messing around apparently endlessly with tyres, rejigging qualification over and over again, fiddling on with aerodynamics and banning everything from launch controls to automatic gearboxes all with the express intention of making the sport more exciting and getting people like myself to chunter: Bloody typical: just when I finally worked out what data downlink telemetry does, they get rid of it.
Introducing Bernie the mogul's next blockbuster: Star Wars F1? | Harry Pearson 2011
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"Ah, but will they?" asks fearless interrogator Keys, as the pair chunter on about Spurs in Europe, and then Arsenal, for hour after unending hour.
Liverpool's European Losers Cup outing is enough to make ad men mad | Martin Kelner 2011
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For those of you who think this is an important element of the county blog, Yorkshire are 69 for one, rattling along at about 10 runs per chunter.
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