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grinching

grinching is the present participle and gerund of grinch.

Meaning of grinch

Verb

grinch (third-person singular simple present grinches, present participle grinching, simple past and past participle grinched)

  1. (US) To act like a grinch; to be a killjoy towards someone.

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Questions about grinching

What is grinching the present participle and gerund of?
Grinching is the present participle and gerund of grinch.

Words near grinching in the dictionary

  1. grinch toe
  2. grinch toes
  3. grinched
  4. grinches
  5. grinchily
  6. grinching
  7. Grinchmas
  8. grinchy
  9. grind
  10. grind down
  11. grind joint

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grinching (page history and authors); grinch (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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