murmuring

English edit

murmuring

present participle and gerund of murmur
- 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:
  Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smokes of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.

murmuring (countable and uncountable, plural murmurings)

A sound that murmurs.
the murmurings of trees in the wind
A complaint against something.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 2:14:
  Do all things without murmurings and disputings.
- 1796, Maria Edgeworth, The Parent's Assistant:
  When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.

a complaint against something