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Onomatopoeic words



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gnar

cackle

susurrate

blubber

chunter



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chunter PRONUNCIATION: (CHUHN-tuhr)

MEANING: verb intr.: To mutter, grumble, or chatter.

ETYMOLOGY: Of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1599.

USAGE: “All they [passengers in the train] did was chunter on about lambs, holidays, solar panels, grass growing, farming, the health service, marinades, Niagara Falls, the Taliban, and -- honestly -- noisy neighbours.”

Louise James; Biddies Doing My Head In; Belfast Telegraph (Northern Ireland); Mar 27, 2016.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. -Ann Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963)





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