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grumbling en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (no-gloss) [no gloss]

Forms

Deriveds

ungrumbling · grumblingly

grumbling en · NOUN

Meanings

1. complaining
   • For having submitted my ears to Acutilius for several days (and I think you know his style), I should scarcely have regarded it as a hardship to write you a letter describing his grumblings after patiently enduring the bore (and it was rather a bore, I can tell you) of hearing them. 1920, Cicero, translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order, volume 1 (hardcover), London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., page 2:
   • The commissions paid on this transaction were high and gave rise to grumblings in Great Britain about a “banker's ramp.” 1990, Randall Bennett Woods, A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941-1946, page 409:
   • the grumblings of a bad-tempered man
2. rumbling

Forms

Translations (17)

gv trughaneys (complaining) · gv tallagh (complaining) · grc γογγυσμός (rumbling) · it brontolamento (complaining) · grc γογγυσμός (complaining) · got 𐌱𐌹𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (complaining) · la murmurātiō (complaining) · la gannītus (complaining) · mk негодување (complaining) · ga cnáimhseáil (complaining) · it borbogliamento (rumbling) · fi nurina (rumbling) · gv gaccan (complaining) · it borboglio (rumbling) · it lamentele (complaining) · pdt Jemurr (complaining) · fi nurina (complaining)

grumbling en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of grumble
   form of grumble