grinch
/ɡɹɪnt͡ʃ/
grinch noun: a grouch or killjoy.
Noun
grinch (plural grinches)
- A grouch or killjoy.
- Here's what they would risk: appearing responsible for higher taxes next year after Obama offered them a deal to extend the Bush-era rates, coming off as grinches for failing to extend unemployment insurance during the holiday season, and the possibility that next year Obama and Democrats will...2010 December 9, Chris Good, “Will Republicans Scuttle the Tax Cut Deal?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2012
- Synonyms:
- grouch, killjoy, spoilsport, addle-plot, buzzkill, cold fish, curmudgeon, dampener, downer, fun sponge
- A person who is aggressively intent on ruining the Christmas holidays for others.
Verb
grinch (third-person singular simple present grinches, present participle grinching, simple past and past participle grinched)
- To act like a grinch; to be a killjoy towards someone.
grinch meaning in Tamil
grinch in Tamil
- மகிழ் அழிப்பான்
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Forms of grinch
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | grinches |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | grinches |
| present participle | grinching |
| past participle | grinched |
| past | grinched |
Origin of grinch
Named after the main character in a children's book by Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957). Coined as early as 1953, the term was initially used for a fictitious bird named the "Beagle-Beaked-Bald-Headed Grinch" in Scrambled Eggs Super!; it became associated with the character in a poem published in the May 1955 issue of Redbook, "The Hoobub and the Grinch". Likely a corruption of grouch.
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Questions about grinch
- What does grinch mean?
- Grinch means a grouch or killjoy.
- What is grinch in Tamil?
- Grinch in Tamil is மகிழ் அழிப்பான். See Grinch meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is grinch?
- Grinch can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce grinch?
- Grinch is pronounced /ɡɹɪnt͡ʃ/.
- What is the plural of grinch?
- The plural of grinch is grinches.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: grinch (page history and authors); grinch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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