grype

grype is the obsolete spelling of gripe.

Meaning of gripe

Verb

gripe (third-person singular simple present gripes, present participle griping, simple past griped or (obsolete) grope, past participle griped or (obsolete) grope or (obsolete) gripen)

(informal, intransitive) To complain; to whine.
- In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is...2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in AV Club
Synonyms:

bitch, complain, whine, whinge
(informal, transitive) To annoy or bother.
- What's griping you?
To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
(obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
- How inly sorrow gripes his soul.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
(intransitive, now archaic except in passive) To suffer griping pains.
- the griping of an hungry belly1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC
(intransitive, obsolete) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
- Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

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Noun

grype (plural grypes)

(obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.
- One grype-ſchill, with a covering, gilt, […]1758 [1540], “The Inventory of such Things as were kept in the Church of Fountains”, in John Burton, editor, Monasticon Eboracense: and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire, York: […] for the...
- His faders deed bodye..he devyded to an hondred grypes lest he sholde ryde from dethe to lyfe.1520, Chronicles of England; quoted in “Gripe, sb.³”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes IV...

Forms of grype

Verb
third-person singular present	grypes
present participle	gryping
past participle	gryped
past	gryped
Noun
plural	grypes
alternative form	gripe

Origin of grype

From Middle English gripe, from Old French gripe, from Latin gryps, grȳphus, from Ancient Greek γρῡ́ψ (grū́ps).

Questions about grype

What does grype mean?: Grype means a vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.
What is grype the obsolete spelling of?: Grype is the obsolete spelling of gripe.
What part of speech is grype?: Grype is a noun.
What is the plural of grype?: The plural of grype is grypes.

Words near grype in the dictionary

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