grumbler

Meanings

noungrumbler (plural grumblers)

A person who persistently grumbles; a complainer.
But the grumbler must be heard through the newspapers, and a great deal of unpleasantness comes to newspapers from the grumbler; and the newspapers, and not the grumbler, nearly always have to take the brunt of the trouble.
1890, American Street Railway Association, Verbatim Report of the Proceedings of the Convention (page 169)
Synonyms: bellyacher, carper, castigator, caviler, censurer, complainer, crabber, critic

nounA person who persistently grumbles; a complainer.

nouna person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining

Broader

unpleasant persondisagreeable person

Also see

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Ancient Greek γογγυστής

Catalan rondinaire, botzinaire

Chinese 发牢骚的人

Finnish valittaja

Polish maruda, zrzęda

Russian ворчу́н, ворчу́нья

Swedish kverulant, gnällspik

Welsh grwgnachwr, grwgnachwraig

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