grumphing

Updated: May 15, 2025

I never had muckle except what was within a good jerkin, an' let the thief ruin me there wha can. "Do you remember aught else that your mistress said on the occasion? Did you hear her blame any person?" "O, she made a gread deal o' grumphing an' groaning about the misfortune, as she ca'd it, an' I think she said it was a part o' the ruin, wrought by the Ringans, or some sic name.

James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner