Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To grumble or mutter like a froward child.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To grumble or mutter like a froward child.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
grumble ormutter sulkily .
Etymologies
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Compare Old English chowre, and English dialect chow, to grumble.
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Examples
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"Who efer heart a pird uf dot could make a vish-chowter!
Frank Merriwell's Cruise Burt L. Standish 1905
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