murmuring

murmuring

1. present participle and gerund of murmur
   • 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:

     Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smokes of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.

murmuring (countable and uncountable, plural murmurings)

1. A sound that murmurs.

   the murmurings of trees in the wind

2. A complaint against something.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Philippians 2:14:

     Do all things without murmurings and disputings.

   • 1796, Maria Edgeworth, The Parent's Assistant:

     When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.