gripeful
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gripeful (comparative more gripeful, superlative most gripeful)
- Disposed to gripe; gripey.
- 1885, Scott R. Sherwood, The Lays of a Bohemian: Being Some of the Metrical Conceits, page 151:
- Our imp, with gripeful longing, sought The nearest beer-saloon, A dozen brimming schooners bought And stowed in his "galleon;"
- 1895, Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss, Reminiscences of an Old Bohemian, page 118:
- It has been my good or my bad fortune, take it as you will, to watch the fabrication of "fiz," in certain parts of the Palatinate, and I have been specially privileged to see the most gripeful of all gripy wines that I have ever attempted to drink, the famous Silesian Grüneberger, turned indifferently into Duc de Montebello or Heidsick Monopole, or anyone's Carte Blanche or Carte Noire.
- 1959, The Walther League Messenger - Volume 68, page 28:
- His attitude changed. He was less gripeful and more grateful.
- 2018, Ben Raiche, People Like Us:
- I don't know if any microbes and other germs have the ability to bite or sting, they are certainly included in this "gripeful” critique.