0 present participle of chunter
1 to complain, especially in a low voice:
There never has been any reason why decisions should go chuntering up the tiers of management.
He should not seek to obscure the debate by chuntering on about the possible result of the general election.
We must not have continued chuntering from a sedentary position.
We sometimes endure midnight chunterings, which are not examples of thoughtful and rational debate.
There is no need for rivalry between lawyers, mediators and others, despite some of the chunterings from the legal profession.
It is in fact very different from the hypocritical chuntering that we have been hearing recently about back to basics.
He is always chuntering—oh, he has risen to his feet, just to show that he is here.
I rarely remember a time when there was so much opportunistic chuntering from people who do not even really understand the detail of this matter.
