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grumbling

verbnounattested in dialogue

complaining

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of grumblepresent participle and gerund of grumble

noun

  1. 1

    complaining

    the grumblings of a bad-tempered man

    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.

    The commissions paid on this transaction were high and gave rise to grumblings in Great Britain about a “banker's ramp.”

  2. 2

    rumbling

Forms

plural
grumblings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).