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单词 grunch
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grunchv.

/ɡrʌnʃ/
Forms: Also 1500s grunsch, 1500s, 1800s gruntch.
Etymology: Perhaps a modification of grutch v., influenced by grunt v.
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
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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).
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