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owlfish at 05:37pm on 22/06/2003
owlfish at 05:37pm on 22/06/2003to chunter v. to mutter/mumble/grumble.
Used in West Midlands dialect (England), especially in Birmingham. (Although most of the OED examples from the 18th and 19th centuries involved Yorkshire.)
(The Lonely Planet British Phrasebook, p. 216; used self-explanatorily in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
Used in West Midlands dialect (England), especially in Birmingham. (Although most of the OED examples from the 18th and 19th centuries involved Yorkshire.)
(The Lonely Planet British Phrasebook, p. 216; used self-explanatorily in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)