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grutching

grutching is the present participle and gerund 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 grutching

What is grutching the present participle and gerund of?
Grutching is the present participle and gerund of grutch.

Words near grutching in the dictionary

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

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