grutch
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]The verb is from Middle English grucchen (attested since c. 1200), from Old French grouchier (“to grumble”), of unknown origin, perhaps from Germanic, and likely of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Frankish *grōtijan (“to accuse, yell at, make cry, scold”). The noun is from Middle English grucche, from the verb; it is attested since about 1400. See also grudge, grouch, grouse.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɡɹʌt͡ʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Verb
[edit]grutch (third-person singular simple present grutches, present participle grutching, simple past and past participle grutched)
- (intransitive) To murmur, complain.
- 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company:
- "But I am a man who may grutch and grumble, but when I have set my face to do a thing I will not turn my back upon it until it be done."
- (obsolete) To grudge.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- But that their natures bad appeard in both:
For both did at their second Sister grutch
Noun
[edit]grutch (plural grutches)
- A complaint.
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