different between chunter vs chutter

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

Imitative.

Noun

chutter (plural chutters)

1. An alarm call used by vervets to warn of the presence of a snake.

Verb

chutter (third-person singular simple present chutters, present participle chuttering, simple past and past participle chuttered)

1. To make an alarm call of this kind.

Anagrams

• Utrecht