grumbler

noun

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1
as in complainer
an irritable and complaining person the motor coach tour would have been okay if I hadn't been paired up with a grumbler who whined through the whole thing

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as in baby
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things how can you be such a grumbler when so much in your life is going well?

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  1. crab
  2. bear
  3. crank
Noun
  • Unless there is a shark approaching you, in which case scurry sideways like a crab.
    Viktoria Shulevich, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • That plan aged like Maryland crab left out in the sun.
    Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of crab
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  • In this case, however, the bear found a natural food source — a dead critter in the woods — and made the most of it.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Zoom in: Fear is an adaptive mechanism that humans developed to help us, long ago, avoid things like being eaten by a bear, Bradford told Axios.
    Kale Williams, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of bear
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  • Most of the recipients dismissed the composer as a crank, but a few were spellbound by his transcendentalist conjurations, and a cult began to grow.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Robert Whittaker via submission in the first round (face crank) Magomed Ankalaev def.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of crank
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