chunter

There was a lot of dismissive concourse chatter and Twitter chunter over the manner of Boro's win.

Despite the Kawasaki-killing performance it's quieter than a 911, easy to drive at low speeds and can chunter round town without histrionics.

Sorry, but in voting for devolution we voted to do an Isle of Man and swim off into the sea and chunter to ourselves.

You are your harshest critic and sometimes that means you do that chunter thing, your know, when you talk under your breath to yourself moaning about things nobody else noticed.

And it's money which could be directed at the shambling cattle wagons which make up the north-south rail service, which takes four hours to chunter from Llandudno down to Cardiff, gradually sapping its passengers' will to live.

"The decision got turned down and you can chunter asmuch as you want but you've got to get on with it haven't you?

"The decision got turned down and you can chunter as much as you want but you've got to get on with it haven't you?

These are the people, don't forget, who chunter endlessly about how they saved this country at war, forgetting that their "heroism" owed as much to conscription as patriotism.

Pat Whitham of Shepley has added to the delightful confusion by sending me a copy of the dialect dictionary Chelp And Chunter by Ian McMillan (Collins, pounds 5.99).

It is I suppose quite fun to wave the arms and chunter away about an Independent Welsh Republic with its own seats in the UN and EU as long as it is not going to actually happen.

One minute he was happy to chunter on obligingly; the next he'd be in "yesno" mode.