单词 | grunch |
释义 | grunchv. Scottish. Obsolete exc. archaic. a. intransitive. To grumble, express discontent. Const. at. Also with infinitive. To grudge, to object. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > complain [verb (intransitive)] murkeOE misspeakOE yomer971 chidea1000 murkenOE grutch?c1225 mean?a1300 hum13.. plainta1325 gruntc1325 plainc1325 musea1382 murmurc1390 complain1393 contrary1393 flitec1400 pinea1425 grummec1430 aggrudge1440 hoinec1440 mutterc1450 grudge1461 channerc1480 grunch1487 repine1529 storm?1553 expostulate1561 grumblea1586 gruntle1591 chunter1599 swagger1599 maunder1622 orp1634 objurgate1642 pitter1672 yelp1706 yammer1794 natter1804 murgeon1808 groan1816 squawk1875 jower1879 grouse1887 beef1888 to whip the cat1892 holler1904 yip1907 peeve1912 grouch1916 nark1916 to sound off1918 create1919 moana1922 crib1925 tick1925 bitch1930 gripe1932 bind1942 drip1942 kvetchc1950 to rag on1979 wrinch2011 1487 Dietary (St. John's Cambr.) 15 in J. Barbour Bruce (1877) 538 Mek in troubill, glad in pouerte..Neuir grunching, bot mery lik thi degre. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 165 As I grunchit at this grum, and glysnyt about. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xi. 61 Quhilk be thy wordis of fatale destane Now grunschis thou to give or to conceid. c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiv. 92 For, haif ane bismeir baggis, Ȝe grunche not at hir grunȝe. 1616 Barbour's Actes & Life Bruce (Hart) 24 And gif his keeper oft grunches [1489 Adv. gruchys; 1571 grunchiȝ], Looke that thou take him magre his. b. quasi-transitive with cognate object: To utter grumblingly; to grumble out. ΚΠ 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 55 His drone did gruntch sae dour a sound, Black Pluto heard it under~ground. Derivatives ˈgrunching n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > action of complaining yomeringc1000 grutching?c1225 plainingc1300 complaintc1384 murmurc1385 murmurationc1390 groiningc1405 grudgingc1420 musinga1425 querimonyc1450 storming1461 mutteringc1475 grudge1477 grunching1487 murmuringc1530 muting1542 repining1550 orpingc1598 maundering1611 oggannition1625 jowering1628 remonstrating1647 regrudginga1677 complaining1702 pesting1705 yammering1705 growling1752 pine1804 gruntling1834 bitching1939 griping1945 pissing1947 bitch1975 kitchen-sinking1975 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 9 And he hym levit with a grunching [1489 Adv. gruching]. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 548 in Poems (1981) 25 Togidder all but grunching furth ȝe glyde! 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 171 With grunschand luke quhen scho [Fortoun] lykis to greif. c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiii. 14 Sturt, angir, grunching, yre, and greif. 1892 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 129 I vow and declare that grunching was no spontaneous growth in my nature. ˈgruncher n. one who ‘grunches’ or grumbles; in quot. 1892 a nickname. ΚΠ 1892 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 128 One of the contemporaries of my own bright days was known as ‘the Gruncher’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1487 |
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