Chunter vs Chutter - What's the difference?
chunter | chutter |
(British, dialect) To speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter.
* 2003 , J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , page 349:
(British, dialect) To grumble, complain.
* 1921 [1999], David Herbert Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia (Penguins Classics),
An alarm call used by vervets to warn of the presence of a snake.
* 1985 , Alison Jolly, The Evolution of Primate Behavior (page 75)
* 1995 , Stanis?aw Puppel, The Biology of Language (page 3)
As verbs the difference between chunter and chutter
is that chunter is (british|dialect) to speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter while chutter is to make an alarm call of this kind.As a noun chutter is
an alarm call used by vervets to warn of the presence of a snake.chunter
English
Verb
(en verb)- Ron continued to chunter under his breath all the way down the street.
page 74:
- “Since she had another seat and was quite comfortable, we smiled and let her chunter .”
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)
chutter
English
Noun
(en noun)- Vervet monkeys have several different sorts of call, including "leopard alarm barks," "eagle rraups'," and "snake ' chutters " (Struhsaker, 1967).
- The vervet's main claim to fame, however, lies in its alarm calls, in which it distinguishes between different types of predator: a chutter warns of the presence of a snake; a rraup is uttered when an eagle is spotted; a chirp is used for lions