v. Obs. exc. dial. Also 6 chunner, 7 chounter, 9 chunder. [App. of imitative formation.] To mutter, murmur; to grumble, find fault, complain.
1599. Broughton’s Lett., x. 35. Your heyfer … must … wander alone and chunner out an Heathenish conceit of descending into the world of soules poetically.
c. 1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Chounter, to talk pertly, and (sometimes) angrily.
1788. Marshall, Provinc. E. Yorksh. (E. D. S. Repr. Gloss.), Chunter … to express discontent about trifles.
1847–78. Halliwell, Chunter … also spelt chunner and chunder.
1870. E. Peacock, Ralf Skirl., II. 117. Th’ capt’n went away chunterin’.
Hence Chuntering vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1832. Mrs. Toogood, Yorksh. Dial. (1863). He is a chuntering sort of fellow, never contented.
1876. Whitby Gloss., ‘A chuntering bout,’ a fit of sulkiness with impertinence.
