grutch
English edit
Alternative forms 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
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.