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Dec 2, 2016
This week’s themeOnomatopoeic words This week’s words gnar cackle susurrate blubber chunter Photo: Glass Angel
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PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
verb intr.: To mutter, grumble, or chatter.
ETYMOLOGY:
Of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1599.
USAGE:
“All they [passengers in the train] did was chunter on about lambs,
holidays, solar panels, grass growing, farming, the health service,
marinades, Niagara Falls, the Taliban, and -- honestly -- noisy neighbours.” Louise James; Biddies Doing My Head In; Belfast Telegraph (Northern Ireland); Mar 27, 2016. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you,
or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. -Ann
Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963)
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