grumbling

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English

Verb

grumbling

  1. present participle and gerund of grumble

Noun

grumbling (plural grumblings)

  1. complaining
    the grumblings of a bad-tempered man
    • 1990, Randall Bennett Woods, A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941-1946, page 409:
      The commissions paid on this transaction were high and gave rise to grumblings in Great Britain about a “banker's ramp.”
  2. rumbling

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