different between chunter vs chaunter

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??n.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??n.t?/

Verb

chunter (third-person singular simple present chunters, present participle chuntering, simple past and past participle chuntered)

1. (Britain, dialect) To speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter.
2. (Britain, dialect) To grumble, complain.
   • 1921 [1999], David Herbert Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia (Penguins Classics), page 74:

     “Since she had another seat and was quite comfortable, we smiled and let her chunter.”

Translations

References

• “D. H. Lawrence gave a new lease on life to the verb to chunter, ‘to mutter, complain’, labelled “Obs. exc. dial”, when he used it in Sea and Sardinia (1921)’,” Languages in Contact and Contrast: Essays in Contact Linguistics, by Vladimir Ivir, Damir Kalogjera, page 411 (b.g.c link)

English

Etymology

Variant of chanter.

Noun

chaunter (plural chaunters)

1. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
2. (colloquial) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.

   • He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now.

3. The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.

Middle English

Noun

chaunter

1. Alternative form of chauntour (“chanter”)

Old French

Verb

chaunter

1. (late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of chanter

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.