1 to complain in a bad-tempered way -- mukke, beklage seg, kjefte
He grumbled at the way he had been treated.
2 to make a low and deep sound -- brumme, rumle
Thunder grumbled in the distance.
3 a complaint made in a bad-tempered way -- klage
4 a low, deep sound -- rumling, knurring
the grumble of thunder.
I believe that patriotism will guide them in this matter, and that without grumbling they are prepared to take their share of responsibility.
Now they are grumbling about having to pay for it.
If, then, all farmers would take an interest in the welfare of their men, as the best farmers do, there would be much less grumbling.
If it grumbles at those costs, what are the costs of nearly 4 million unemployed pressing down on industry?
One hardly ever hears of a clerk grumbling or growling, although sometimes they may have said that they really cannot undertake any more work.
I am told that she grumbled in private about the change in direction.
I hear scarcely a word of grumbling about that.
There was a great deal of grumbling when my right honourable friend did that.
