chowter

English

Etymology

Compare Old English chowre, and English dialect chow (“to grumble”).

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To grumble or mutter sulkily.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chowter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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