grumbling

noun, adj — 2 senses

grumbling

noun
1

complaining

  • the grumblings of a bad-tempered man
  • 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:
2

rumbling

grumbling

adj
Derived terms
grumblingly, ungrumbling

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