grumbletonian
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grumbletonian (plural grumbletonians)
- (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[1], 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.