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begrumble en · ADJ

Etymology

From be- (“about”) + grumble.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) damned; blasted
   • “All right, all right,” Gloria complained, “if you're so dead set on your begrumbled frog. […]” 2002, Oxford S. Stroud, To Yield a Dream:

begrumble en · VERB

Etymology

From be- (“about”) + grumble.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To grumble.
   • Then why should people begrumble to pay a decent price for the upkeep of the great picture gallery of the world, universal Nature, teeming with the masterpieces of the master artist Nature? 1902, Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer, page 402:
2. (transitive) To grumble at or to.
   • The begrumbled human face looked at the kind old lady in the cottage with something akin to terror. 2014, Laura May, Pickles and Ponies:
   • Scratcheting roof-possums haunt gamely chomp & claw - preening in midnight garrets above our bed begrumbling us our sleep sometimes 1983, Westerly - Volumes 28-29, page 50:

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