Chunter vs Hunter - What's the difference?
chunter | hunter |
(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),
One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
A dog used in hunting.
A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 480:
One who hunts or seeks after anything.
* Tennyson
A kind of spider, the huntsman or hunting spider.
A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.
As a verb chunter
is (british|dialect) to speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter.As a proper noun hunter is
for a hunter.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)
hunter
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Henry, laughing, spurs away his hunter under the dripping trees.
- The hunter becomes the hunted.
- a fortune hunter
- No keener hunter after glory breathes.