chowtering

Verb

chowter (third-person singular simple present chowters, present participle chowtering, simple past and past participle chowtered)

1. (obsolete) To grumble or mutter sulkily.
   • 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[…]"1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family