grouch
/ɡɹaʊt͡ʃ/
grouch noun: a complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
Noun
grouch (plural grouches)
- A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
- But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch.1919, P. G. Wodehouse, 'A Damsel in Distress', Herbert Jenkins, 1956, p 20
- One who is grumpy or irritable.
- I don't feel like hanging around with that grouch.
- Synonyms:
- bellyacher, carper, castigator, caviler, censurer, complainer, crabber, critic, criticizer, faultfinder
Verb
grouch (third-person singular simple present grouches, present participle grouching, simple past and past participle grouched)
- To be grumpy or irritable; to complain.
- He spent all his time grouching about the problem instead of fixing it.
grouch meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
grouch in Urdu
- گلہ, شکوہ, گلہ کرنا
grouch in Bengali
- বদমেজাজী ব্যক্তি, খিটখিটে স্বভাব
grouch in Malayalam
- അസംതൃപ്തിയുടെ കാരണം, പിറുപിറുക്കുന്നവൻ, ശുണ്ഠിയുള്ളവൻ, വെറുപ്പുള്ളവൻ
grouch in Kannada
- ದೂರಿಡು, ಗೊಣಗು, ಗೊಣಗಾಡು
Synonyms of grouch
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Forms of grouch
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | grouches |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | grouches |
| present participle | grouching |
| past participle | grouched |
| past | grouched |
Origin of grouch
From Middle English grouchen, variant of grucchen (“to complain, mumble, murmur”). See grutch.
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Questions about grouch
- What does grouch mean?
- Grouch means a complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
- What is grouch in Urdu?
- Grouch in Urdu is گلہ, شکوہ, گلہ کرنا. See Grouch meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is grouch?
- Grouch can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce grouch?
- Grouch is pronounced /ɡɹaʊt͡ʃ/.
- What is the plural of grouch?
- The plural of grouch is grouches.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: grouch (page history and authors); grouch (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Grouch (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grouch (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grouch (Kannada 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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