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chuntered

chuntered is the simple past and past participle of chunter.

Meaning of chunter

Verb

chunter (third-person singular simple present chunters, present participle chuntering, simple past and past participle chuntered)

  1. (British, Ireland, dialectal) To speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter.
    • Ron continued to chunter under his breath all the way down the street.2003 June 21, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter; 5), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 349
  2. (British, Ireland, dialectal) To grumble, complain.
    • Since she had another seat and was quite comfortable, we smiled and let her chunter.1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Mandas”, in Sea and Sardinia, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 136

Questions about chuntered

What is chuntered the simple past and past participle of?
Chuntered is the simple past and past participle of chunter.

Words near chuntered in the dictionary

  1. Chunqiu
  2. chunri
  3. chunris
  4. Chuns
  5. chunter
  6. chuntered
  7. chuntering
  8. chunterings
  9. chunters
  10. chuntey
  11. Chuny

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chuntered (page history and authors); chunter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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