murmurer

noun

Definition of murmurernext
as in crab
an irritable and complaining person the murmurers among the patients usually got fed last

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  1. crab
  2. bear
  3. crank
Noun
  • The landscape also included large primates, rodents, snakes, crabs — and even carnivorous marsupials.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Villa Avellana Who Stays There: Tech entrepreneurs, bank CEOs, music producers, and entertainers The Property: A modern, teak-and-glass villa on a secluded cove with red land crabs, white egrets, and turtle nests.
    Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of crab
Noun
  • For instance, of 10 bears observed interacting with vehicle barriers, eight crossed successfully.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
  • At Green Angels Landscaping, visitors can stop by on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for a drive-thru display of lights and decor complete with large nutcrackers, a tunnel of lights for children to run through, a polar train village and a town of holiday bears.
    Kiersten Hacker, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of bear
Noun
  • Intellectual humility is usually hailed as a virtue, but in this Aeon essay, philosopher Rachel Fraser makes an unexpected argument against it by drawing on the case of geneticist Barbara McClintock, who relentlessly pursued her ideas even though her peers probably saw her as a crank.
    Sigal Samuel, Vox, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Lane was too extraordinary a surgeon to be shrugged off as a crank, but before long reports of worryingly high mortality rates began to circulate and several damning exposés appeared in prominent medical journals.
    Elsa Richardson, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of crank
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