grumbletonianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɡɹʌm.bəlˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌɡɹʌm.bəlˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
• 韻: -əʊniən

名詞

grumbletonian (plural grumbletonians)

1. (obsolete, UK politics, derogatory, slang) Originally a member of the 17th-century Country Party; later a member of the opposition.
   • 1722, The Rump Examin’d; with It’s Secrets Discover’d, and laid open‎, A. Moore, page 18:

     He was often dis-guſted, and thought a Grumble-tonian; but there was no getting an inſight into his Proceedings. He’d be counted ſometimes (behind the Curtain) a High-Flyer, and Tory-rory-Ranter; yet, by his natural In-ſtinks, he inclined to be of the Low-Party: Some ſay he was of no Side, but between both.