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• gruch

Verb

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

1. To murmur, complain.
   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company:

     "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."

Noun

grutch ‎(plural grutches)

1. A complaint.
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1:

     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.

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