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English
Etymology
Compare Old English chowre, and English dialect chow (“to grumble”).
Verb
chowter (third-person singular simple present chowters, present participle chowtering, simple past and past participle chowtered)
- (obsolete) To grumble or mutter sulkily.[1]
1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family:Chuk poured out the coffee , and handed him the sugar and milk ; and while Richard was eating , the boy tended his master , and chowtered about the room . “ There is not a boom on the river like that , ” he said , " and there'll never be […] "
References
- ^ 1662, Edward Phillips, The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary
“chowter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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