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grumbler

noun

Etymology

From grumble + -er.

  1. derived from grommen — “to growl, grunt”
  2. derived from *grommelen✻
  3. derived from grumeler — “to murmur, grumble”
  4. borrowed from grommeler
  5. formed as grumbler — “grumble + -er”

Definitions

  1. A person who persistently grumbles

    A person who persistently grumbles; a complainer.

    • But the grumbler must be heard through the newspapers, and a great deal of unpleasantness comes to newspapers from the grumbler; and the newspapers, and not the grumbler, nearly always have to take the brunt of the trouble.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for grumbler. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA