grucche

Middle English

Etymology

See grudge.

Verb

grucche (third-person singular simple present grucches, present participle grucching, simple past and past participle grucched)

  1. To murmur; to grumble.
    • Chaucer, Clerk's Tale 351-4
      I seye this, be ye redy with good herte
      To al my lust, and that I frely may,
      As me best thynketh, do yow laughe or smerte,
      And nevere ye to grucche it nyght ne day,
      And eek whan I sey ye, ne sey nat nay,
      Neither by word, ne frownyng contenance?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for grucche in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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