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grutches

grutches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of grutch.

grutches is the plural of grutch.

Meaning of grutch

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

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Questions about grutches

What is grutches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Grutches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of grutch.

Words near grutches in the dictionary

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

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