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grutch

/ɡɹʌt͡ʃ/

grutch verb: to murmur, complain.

Verb

grutch (third-person singular simple present grutches, present participle grutching, simple past and past participle grutched)

  1. (intransitive) To murmur, complain.
    • "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."1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
  2. (obsolete) To grudge.
    • But that their natures bad appeard in both:
      For both did at their second Sister grutch1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun

grutch (plural grutches)

  1. A complaint.
    • In it he melted lead for bullets,
      To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets;
      To whom he bore so fell a grutch,
      He ne'er gave quarter t' any such.1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1

Forms of grutch

Verb
third-person singular presentgrutches
present participlegrutching
past participlegrutched
pastgrutched
alternative formgruch
Noun
pluralgrutches

Origin of grutch

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.

Words that rhyme with grutch

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Questions about grutch

What does grutch mean?
Grutch means to murmur, complain.
What part of speech is grutch?
Grutch can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce grutch?
Grutch is pronounced /ɡɹʌt͡ʃ/.
What is the past tense of grutch?
The past tense of grutch is grutched.

Words near grutch in the dictionary

  1. grush
  2. grushie
  3. grushies
  4. Gruszka
  5. Gruszkas
  6. grutch
  7. grutched
  8. grutches
  9. grutching
  10. Gruver
  11. Gruvers

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