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Synonyms for grumbly

Grammar : Adj
Spell : gruhm-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgrʌm bəl

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Définition of grumbly

Origin :
  • 1580s, from Middle French grommeler "mutter between the teeth" or directly from Middle Dutch grommelen "murmur, mutter, grunt," from grommen "to rumble, growl." Imitative, or perhaps akin to grim. Related: Grumbled; grumbling.
  • As in querulous : adj grouchy, hard to please
Example sentences :
  • You'd be cranky and grumbly and disagreeable too, I dare say.
  • Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • This is too grousy and grumbly a letter to send off just as it is.
  • Extract from : « Up and Down » by Edward Frederic Benson
  • Grumbly is a good soldier in his way, Mr. Connell, and knows his trade, too.
  • Extract from : « To The Front » by Charles King
  • At the sound of that deep, rumbly, grumbly voice it looked for a few minutes as if school would be broken up for that day.
  • Extract from : « The Burgess Animal Book for Children » by Thornton W. Burgess
  • "I never had anything nice like that happen to me," said Sammie, in just the least bit of a grumbly voice.
  • Extract from : « Sammie and Susie Littletail » by Howard R. Garis
  • Now there lived at this same court a very rich old Duchess whose name was Grumbly.
  • Extract from : « The Fairy Ring » by Various
  • The population there is rather disposed to be grumbly on its once heroic Fabius; wishes the Fabius were a little less cunctatory.
  • Extract from : « History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.) » by Thomas Carlyle
  • Buster growled a deep, grumbly, rumbly growl and started up after him.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Bobby Coon » by Thornton W. Burgess
  • Now there lived at this same court a very rich old duchess whose name was Grumbly.
  • Extract from : « The Red Fairy Book » by Various
  • The doctor is still in his plaster cast, but I hear is doing well, after a grumbly fashion.
  • Extract from : « Dear Enemy » by Jean Webster

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