gripen.1
/ɡrʌɪp/, U.S. /ɡraɪp/ 1. in extended use.1842 R. Browning Pied Piper of Hamelin in Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics vii I heard a sound as of..putting apples..Into a cider-press's gripe.† c. Phr. (in figurative context). to lay, fasten a gripe on, upon: to stretch forth a griping hand upon. to get a gripe of: to secure a hold of. Obsolete.† f. The kind of sensation produced by an object when grasped. (Cf. feel n. 6a) Obsolete.
a. The action of griping, clutching, grasping or seizing tenaciously, esp. with the hands, arms, claws, and the like. to come to gripes: to come to close quarters with (cf. grip n.1 1c).
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the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [noun] > laying hold or seizing
gripinga1300
arrestc1386
gripe1393
seizingc1400
henting1440
kippingc1440
prensation1620
gripping1632
apprehension1646
comprehension1712
prehension1807
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)] > engage in hostile encounter
counter1330
encounter1555
to come to grips1640
to come to gripesa1645
buckle?1650
to lock horns (also antlers)1850
face1922
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xx. 146 Al that the fyngres and the fust felen and touchen, Beo he greued with here gripe the holy gost let falle.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3761 Grete armys in the gripe, growen full rounde.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 46 When I thee third tyme with grype more fiercelye [L. maiore nisu] dyd offer.
1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age iii. sig. Gv He chokes him with his gripes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. vi. 22 He..raught me his hand, And with a feeble gripe, sayes [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 7 All the locks and gripes of wrastling.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. ii. 62 Bellerophon could not avoid the coming to gripes with the Monster.
1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode iii. i. 38 Like a weak Dove under the Falcon's gripe.
1718 M. Prior Power 442 The bear's rough gripe.
1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) ii. 67 The cords, alas! a solid gripe deny.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. ix. 284 He..seized me by the arms with a rude gripe, and pressed me..to his breast.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 105 Rescue me from the gripe of this iron-fisted..clown.
1841 R. W. Emerson Hist. in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 31 Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules.
b. figurative. Grasp, hold, control, grip. †Formerly common in plural.
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society > authority > control > [noun] > control and possession
wieldnesseOE
fathomOE
waldOE
wieldOE
wieldingOE
woldc1275
grip1508
gripe1532
graspa1616
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxlvii Vertue with ful gripe encloseth al these thynges.
1592 J. Dee Autobiogr. Tracts 35 in Chetham Misc. (1851) I Under the thraldome of the usurer's gripes.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 134 I take my cause Out of the gripes of cruell men. View more context for this quotation
1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 225 To oppress his Tenants, and all that are within his gripe.
1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 111 The Gripe severe Of brazen-fisted Time.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 80. ⁋6 When we have..felt the gripe of the frost.
1780 E. Burke Speech Bristol previous to Election 13 As things wrung from you with your blood, by the cruel gripe of a rigid necessity.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila iv. iii. 182 Not only did more than five hundred Jews perish in the dark and secret gripe of the grand inquisitor, but [etc.].
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 64 Russia..has Bokhara within her gripe.
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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > get into one's or its control
temea1387
to take hold1577
to lay, fasten a gripe on, upona1586
amenage1590
to get (a person, etc.) where the hair is short1872
cinch1875
to get a handle on1901
to sew up1904
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort
begeteOE
findOE
bewinc1175
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conquerc1230
reachc1275
procurec1325
makec1350
fishc1374
catchc1384
furneya1400
attainc1405
tillc1440
to pick out1577
to get a gripe ofa1586
secure1743
raise1838
to get one's hooks on (also into)1926
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Pp2v The Latines..hauing..long gaped to deuoure Greece..were euen readye to lay an vniust gripe vpon it.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 59 Be hop it [sc. the soul] gettis ane neirer gripe of ye guidnes of God.
1624 P. Massinger Bond-man i. i. sig. B2 Ambitious Carthage, That to enlarge her Empire, striues to fasten An vniust gripe on vs (that liue free Lords Of Syracusa).
a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 488 You have left in him illos aculeos which you doe in all that (after the Scotish phrase) get but a gripe of you.
a1640 P. Massinger Guardian ii. i, in 3 New Playes (1655) 32 May we not have a touch at Lawyers? Claud. By no means; they may To soon have a gripe at us.
d. Surgery. An act of compressing (e.g. an artery) with the fingers (cf. gripe v.1 3b, griper n. 1). cutting on the gripe: a mode of operating for the stone in which it is seized and held by the finger.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > stopping haemorrhage > [noun] > by compression
arctation1656
gripe1676
compressing1804
acupressure1859
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > abdominal operations > on bladder or urinary vessels
cutting on the gripe1676
cystotomy1721
lithotomy1721
lithotrity1830
lithotripsy1834
litholysis1856
boutonnière1884
cystectomy1891
ureterectomy1893
urethrectomy1893
cysticotomy1900
cystostomy1910
ureterosigmoidostomy1934
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. vi. ii. 452 In stead of the Ligature..they make a gripe, which gripe is commonly made by some Assistent who hath strength to do it.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Lithotomy This Way is called Apparatus minor,..this we in England call Cutting upon the Gripe, and is the Method our Suters always cut by.
1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. xviii. 84 The most antient way of cutting for the Stone is that describ'd by Celsus, and known by the name of Cutting on the Gripe.
1886 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
e. Military. at the gripe (see quot. 1833).
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1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. iii. 95 Raise the carbine with the right hand..and seize it with the left at the ‘Gripe’ (that is, with the full hand round the barrel and stock).
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > quality of being tangible > [noun] > sensation produced by object touched
touchingc1325
gripe1632
feel1739
handle1823
handling1824
hand1949
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 495 The Calabrian silke, had never a better luster, and softer gripe, then [etc.].
2. transferred and figurative (cf. 1b).
a. The ‘clutch’ or ‘pinch’ of something painful. Formerly often in plural: Spasms of pain, pangs of grief or affliction. Now rare or Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun] > severity or acuteness
tartnessc1000
hardship?c1225
smartness1340
sharpnessa1400
gripea1547
pungency1649
severity1835
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Biv New gripes of dred then pearse our trembling brestes.
1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms xxx. 6 Gripes of griefe and pangues full sore.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 156 More violently tortured with inward convulsions, and evill gripes, then by outward disease.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 264 Heart-strook with chilling gripe of sorrow. View more context for this quotation
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 235 The secret Girds, and Gripes of a dissatisfied..Conscience!
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xviii. 150 The gripes of poverty, and stings of care.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 163. ⁋3 The gripe of distress.
1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lvi. 200 The sharpest gripe of cold and hunger.
b. An intermittent spasmodic pain in the bowels. Usually plural, colic pains.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in stomach or bowels
womb achea1398
gnawing1398
torsionc1425
colicc1440
frettingc1440
the wormc1500
wringc1500
griping1526
wresting?1543
wringing?1550
bellyache1552
torment1578
colic passion1586
wind-colic1593
belly-thrawe1595
belly-grinding1597
fret1600
gripe1601
wrenching1607
mulligrubsa1625
bellywarka1652
torminaa1655
efferation1684
stomach-ache1763
gastrodynia1804
guts-ache1818
stony colic1822
wame-ill1829
gastralgia1834
tummy ache1926
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 331 If gripes come thick, they prescribe the ashes of Harts horn.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trenchaison, a gripe or a wring, as of the Chollicke, &c.
1688 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 443 The young prince hath been troubled with the gripes and had some fits.
1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery xiii. 121 The cholic or gripes in horses.
1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide iv. i. 25 My Time has been wretchedly spent With a Gripe or a Hickup wherever I went.
1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 245 Poor Margery's tripes Are the martyrs of gripes.
1811 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. IV. Suppl. 286 Swift has said..That he who daily smokes two pipes The tooth-ach never has,—nor gripes.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 290 Excess of green food, sudden exposure to cold, are..occasional causes of gripes.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun]
handeOE
cleche?c1225
fista1300
dallea1500
clutcha1529
gripea1555
famble1567
claw1577
golla1586
patte1586
manus1598
pickers and stealers1604
fore-foota1616
pud1654
daddle?1725
fin1785
mauley1789
feeler1825
maniple1829
flipper1832
flapper1834
grappler1852
duke1874
mitt1893
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] > fist
fista900
nievec1300
gripea1555
fistock1567
neufe1602
mauler1820
mallet1821
fives1825
duke1874
knobblies1898
a1555 J. Philpot in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 227 They went forth and wepte, sayth the Prophet: such shall come agayne hauing their gripes full of gladnes.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 939/1 God with a sparing hand reacheth out those things to the faithfull, which with full gripes he..powreth into the laps..of..epicures.
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 102 The Fingers formed into a gripe or scratching posture.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xvii. 4 He seized his sturdy spear match'd to his gripe.
4. † b. A cluster (of grapes). Obsolete.
a. As much as can be grasped in the hand; a handful; also applied to other quantities (see quots.). local. (Cf. grip n.1 4.)
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills part of body > hand
handfuleOE
gripc1000
hand-lifting1362
nieveful?a1425
gripe1570
maniple1598
fistful1611
fascicule1699
gripeful1727
palmful1812
lift1871
mittful1918
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miv/1 Ye Gripe of a hand, pugnus..manipulus.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie G 529 A Gripe of corne in reaping or so much hey or corne, as one with a pitchforke or hooke can take vp at a time.
1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. Ep. Ded. sig. A5 He once accepted..a gripe of goates-haire for an Oblation.
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xxxiii. §335 When it [sc. corn] is shorn place it in gripes, and with rakes gather the gripes into sheavs.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1124 We'l grasp all shortly in one gripe; In unum quasi manipulum contrahemus.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 405 Gripe, Armfull.
1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 265 Reaping, done with a short crooked hook in handfuls, or gripes; laid down in gripe, when laid down in handfuls untied.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > grape > bunch of grapes
raisinc1300
gripea1400
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > grape > bunch or part of bunch
raisinc1300
wine-grapea1325
gripea1400
cluster-tenec1420
squitterer1737
shoulders1838
a1400–50 Alexander 1347 A growen grape of a grype [Dublin MS. grope of a gripe] a grette & a rype.
5. Something which is griped or grasped.† a. A lute stop. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > guitar or lute type > [noun] > lute > parts of
lute-string1530
lute-pin1596
gripe1610
1610 J. B. Besardo Observ. Lvte-playing in R. Dowland Var. Lvte-lessons sig. Bv By reason of many Gripes or stops (as you call them).
b. The handle of an implement; the hilt of a sword; = grip n.1 6.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > appendages of weapon > handle
helvec897
buttc1425
hilt1574
gripe1748
society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > handle
handleeOE
helvec897
haftc1000
steal1377
start1380
handa1400
helmc1430
handlinga1450
pull1551
grasp1561
hilt1574
cronge1577
hold1578
tab1607
manubrium1609
tree1611
handfast1638
stock1695
handing1703
gripe1748
stem1796
handhold1797
grip1867
1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 28 Their Paddle being double bladed, or two Paddles the Gripes or Handles sewed together, and the Blades one at each Extreme.
1775 N. W. Wraxall Cursory Remarks Tour N. Europe 332 Round the gripe [of a sword] is a bandage of straps of leather crossed.
1793 W. Hodges Trav. India 3 The gripe of the sabre is too small for most European hands.
1846 H. W. Torrens Remarks Uses Mil. Hist. 95 The lance was of a different description to ours, the staff of it resembling two elongated cones joined at their bases, at which point was the gripe.
6. slang.† a. (See quots. 1591, 1608). Obsolete.† b. A covetous person, a miser, a usurer. Also Gripes (as quasi-proper name). (? Sometimes with allusion to gripe n.3) Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > better
bettor1584
gripe1591
better1614
staker1648
wagerer1660
sporting man1742
betting-man1819
fielder1844
investor1850
backer1853
punter1860
layer1871
accumulator1889
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. A3v Certaine olde sokers, which are lookers on, and listen for bets..are called grypes.
1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. F3 He that Betteth is the Gripe. He that is cozened is the Vincent.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. ii. i. 769 Professed Vsurers, meere gripes.
1694 L. Echard in tr. Plautus Comedies Pref. sig. a 4v Dos't think, Boy, we shall be able to squeeze out a swinging sum of Money of this old Gripes, to purchase our Freedom with?
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gripe,..an old Covetous Wretch: also a Banker, Money Scrivener, or Usurer.
c. A complaint; a grumble. slang (originally U.S.).
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > a complaint
plainta1275
groinc1374
complaintc1385
murmura1393
grutchc1460
plainc1475
yammer?a1513
puling?1529
objecting1552
obmurmuration1571
regratea1586
repine1593
grumblinga1616
grumble1623
dissatisfactionc1640
obmurmuring1642
rumbling1842
natter1866
grouch1895
beef1900
holler1901
squawk1909
moan1911
yip1911
grouse1918
gripe1934
crib1943
bitch1945
drip1945
kvetch1957
1934 J. T. Farrell Studs Lonigan (1936) iii. xv. 341 The water was just right..and he took rhythmic strokes... It was like losing all the gripes that had been piling up within him.
1949 Harper's Jan. 61/1 I want to clear my desk of various matters, mostly gripes.
1954 Chem. & Engin. News 8 Mar. As a standard bearer in the cause of accurate nomenclature, you may be interested in one of my pet gripes.
1959 J. Thurber Years with Ross v. 76 Ingersoll was the main target of his gripes.
1964 S. M. Miller in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 306 The ‘gripes’ of low-income neighborhood.. are political issues.
7. Something which gripes or clutches.† b. A device to secure a portcullis (obsolete).
a. †A claw (obsolete); plural pincers (dialect).
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > foot with claws > talon or claw
clawa700
clivera1000
naillOE
cleafre?c1225
cleche?c1225
crook?c1225
clutchc1230
cleec1250
pawc1330
cromea1400
clawrec1400
pouncea1475
talons?a1475
ungle1481
ongle1484
gripe1578
sere1606
unce1609
pouncer1704
unguisc1790
griff1820
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxi. 413 Fashioned like gripes, or clawes, almost lyke the clawes of Wolfe.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Grifagno, any bird that is rauenous, or that hath clawes or gripes. Grifo, Griffo, a griffon, a gripe, a clawe, a pounce.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Gripes, a pair of wooden pincers with long handles for weeding corn.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > gate > [noun] > portcullis > device to secure
gripe1587
1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. ii. i. 45 One Roger builded the Castell of the Vies in the time of Henrie the first, taken in those daies for the strongest hold in England, as vnto whose gate there were regals and gripes for six or seven port cullises.
c. = brake n.7
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > devices to retard or stop motion > brake or braking apparatus
brake1772
gripe1792
brake-apparatus1885
brake-gear1908
anchor1936
binders1942
1792 Trans. Soc. Arts 10 233 The gripe, or brake..and its lever.
1803 Trans. Soc. Arts 21 357 Preventing accidents to horses and carriages in going down hills by a gripe or clasp acting on the naves of the wheels.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 140 The brake or gripe used in common windmills to stop their motion.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Gripe,..a brake applied to the wheel of a crane or derrick.
8. Nautical. (See also gripe n.5) plural. Lashings formed by an assemblage of ropes, etc., to secure a boat in its place on the deck; also, two broad bands passed respectively round the stem and stern of a boat hung in davits, to prevent swinging.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > lashings, seizings, or securing ropes > lashings securing ship's boat
gripe1762
1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 102 The boats..are..with fastening gripes secured.
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. iv. 55 Some of the..men jumped into..quarter-boats, and..[cast] off the gripes and laskings.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 7 Pass the gripes, and see the falls clear for lowering.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) Gripes for a quarter boat.
9. attributive, as (sense 2b) gripe mixture, gripe water.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for indigestion
stomachical1657
antacid1699
peptic1703
pepastic1706
gripe water1728
stomachic1733
concoctor1764
griper1766
stomatic1842
gripe mixture1891
peptonizer1893
1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 231 To make Gripe-water. Take..Penny royal,..Coriander-seeds, Aniseeds, sweet Fennel-seeds, Carraway-seeds; bruise them all, and..sprinkle on them a quart of Brandy..distil it off..drink it warm, and go to bed.
1891 Star 10 Dec. 2/7 A horse medicine known as gripe mixture.
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 3 July 4/6 (advt.) The baby screamed day and night, having been slightly poisoned. I tried Woodward's Gripe Water when all else failed.
1953 E. Taylor Sleeping Beauty xiii. 198 The difficulties of obtaining the right brands of gripe-water, groats, or rusks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
gripen.2
/ɡrʌɪp/, U.S. /ɡraɪp/ regional.
= grip n.2
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1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 22 A Grip or Gripe: a little ditch or trench... This word is of general use all over England.
1796 Hist. Ned Evans I. 258 The hovel in which they were born was built in a ditch, the gripe of which formed two sides of it.
1839 Ann. Reg. 3 He saw a man at the other side of the hedge in the gripe.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy iii It's a wide gripe, and the hedge is as thick as a wall.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† gripen.3
Obsolete.
1.
a. A griffin.In early instances perhaps not clearly distinguished from sense 2.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [noun] > (egg of) griffin
gripec1275
griffin13..
gripe's egg1391
grypha1398
griffiness1834
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14006 Þer ich isah gripes. and grisliche fuȝeles.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 231/432 Þare cam a gryp fleoinde, after heom in þe se..and fondede heom to sle.
13.. K. Alis. 5667 Addres with foure hedes and dragouns, Gripes, tygres, and lyouns.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. lvi. 1207 Grifes ‘þe grype’ is a beste with wynges and is fourefooted and brediþ in þe mounteyns Yperboreis.
1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 396 b/2 A grete grype..assayled them & was lyke to haue destroyed them.
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 191 There are diverse straunge beastes bred in Asia, as Vnicornes,..Mercattes, Grippes.
1592 J. Lyly Gallathea ii. iii. sig. D1 Gryphes make theyr nestes of gold though their coates are fethers.
b. A figure or representation of a griffin.
ΚΠ
1420 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 46 Also 1 bord mausure..wyth a prent in þe myddylle, and a grypp amyde.
a1650 Sr. Lambewell 105 in Furnivall Percy Folio I. 148 Vpon the topp a gripe stood, of shining gold.
2. A vulture.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > vultures or a vulture
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carrion crow1699
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carrion-vulture1829
a1250 XI Pains of Hell 148 in Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 151 Gripes freteþ heore Mawen.
a1300 Havelok 572 Þat him ne hauede grip or ern..þat wolde him dere.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 212/2 Grype, byrde, vultur.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 57 vij gripes apperede firste to Remus.
1520 Chron. Eng. iii. f. 20/1 His faders deed bodye..he devyded to an hondred grypes lest he sholde ryde from dethe to lyfe.
1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc ii. i. (Shaks. Soc.) 114 The hellish Prince adjudge my dampned Ghoste to Tantalus thirste..or cruell gripe to gnawe my growing harte.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. E2 Like a white Hinde vnder the grypes sharpe clawes. View more context for this quotation
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Deut. xiv. 12 The uncleane eate not: to witte, the eagle, the grype, and the osprey.
1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 67/1 The Gripe no more on Titius guts should feed.
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 10 The Gripe, which is of two kinds, the one with a white Head, the other with a black Head, this we take for the Vulture.
a1767 Sir Aldingar xix, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 45/1 I dreamed a grype and a grimlie beast Had carryed my crowne away.
Compounds
gripe-foot n. the foot of a vessel made in the form of a griffin's claw.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > other specific shapes > foot of
gripe-foot1451
petticoat1903
1451 Will of Joan Kelyngholm (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/1) f. 144v Vnum maser wiþ gripe fete.
gripe-shell n. = gripe's egg n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > other specific shapes
gripe's egg1391
gripe-shell15..
Priapus1613
man with the beard1631
delphin1638
belly-cup1673
spout cup1702
leaf cup1716
image mug1788
rhyton1820
toby1841
Sussex pig1846
bell-cupa1849
biberon1853
moustache cup1863
trembleuse cup1869
steeple-cup1909
thistle cup1947
15.. Inv. Fountains Abbey in J. Burton Monasticon Eboracense (1758) 144 A grype-schill, with a covering, gilt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† gripen.4
Obsolete.
A vessel used in the Levant.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > types of regional vessel > in the Levant
gripe1511
gulet1986
1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. lvv Thursdaye .iiij. of vs Englyshe men..hyred vs a lytell Grype whiche we thoughte shulde haue passed more redely with vs than the grete Galye.
1524 R. Copland tr. J. de Bourbon Syege Cyte of Rodes in Begynnynge Ordre Knyghtes Hospytallers sig. Bijv He brought .xv. vesselles called grypes laden wt wyne.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cciiii A vessell called a Gripe, & in her, iii. C. men.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
gripen.5
/ɡrʌɪp/, U.S. /ɡraɪp/ Nautical.
The piece of timber terminating the keel at the forward extremity; sometimes taken as =fore-foot n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > keel and kelson > keel > forward extremity
gripe1580
fore-foot1771
1580 H. Smith in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 470 This day by misfortune a piece of ice stroke of our greepe afore at two afore noone.
1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 120 The false Stemm, Gripe, Keel, Stern-post, and Dead-rising.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gripe,..in Sea-Affairs, the Compass or Sharpness of a Ship's Stem under Water, especially towards the bottom of the Stem.
1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 62 A But left for the Gripe to join to.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Head The gripe, or fore-foot, which unites the keel with the stem.
1830 P. Hedderwick Treat. Marine Archit. 113 Gripe, the under part of the stem and cut-water.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 2 Gripe, a projection forward at the lowest part of the stem; by exposing a larger surface it prevents the foremost part of the ship, when sailing with the wind on the side, from being driven sideways away from the wind.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
gripev.1
/ɡrʌɪp/, U.S. /ɡraɪp/ a. intransitive. To make a grasp or clutch, to seek to get a hold (literal and figurative): in Old English const. dative (sometimes accompanied by locative adverbial phr.) or genitive, later with to (Sc. til), towards, for, at, upon; to grasp at; to seize upon. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold or grip [verb (intransitive)] > lay hold > seek to
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catchc1230
rap1669
nab1794
claw1852
971 Blickl. Hom. 211 Þa fynd..heora gripende wæron, swa swa grædig wulf.
OE Beowulf 1501 Grap þa togeanes, guðrinc gefeng atolan clommum.
OE Genesis 2063 Gripon unfægre under sceat werum scearpe garas.
a1250 Prov. Alfred 192 in Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 114 Þanne schulle vre ifon to vre vouh gripen.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 89 He gripeþ þer-for as grete as for þe grete treuthe.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. v. 3 He gripede faste to þe knottes.
a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. D2v Vpon whose heart may all the furies gripe.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 152 How greidilie men gripis til it, quhen anes it is offirit.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles i. 92 [They] Gripe not at earthly ioyes as earst they did. View more context for this quotation
1615 S. Rowlands Melancholie Knight 40 All gripe to get their owne.
1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies i. ix. 34 That which they gripe to in this Epistle, is, that Calvine..saith, hoc tamen testatum esse volo.
1657 O. Cromwell Speech 20 Apr. in Writings & Speeches (1947) (modernized text) IV. 482 I meant to gripe at the government.
1727 J. Willison Afflicted Man's Compan. (1850) ii. 77 Faith gripes to the great Gospel promise of Salvation.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 90 Their desperate hand Griped to the dagger.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. vii. 91 His quivering fingers griped towards the handle of his sword.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > carry on (a contest, fight, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > contend with
warc1230
to gripe with1377
repugnc1384
wrestle1398
stema1400
befight1474
vary1496
to break a lance with1589
mud-wrestle1988
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 202 Who so synneth in seynt spirit, it semeth that he greueth God, that he grypeth with [1393 ther he gripeth], and wolde his grace quenche.
1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xiii. §1. 168 We will come (as in a Land, or Sea-fight) to grapple and gripe, with Vanities.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > search as if blind or in dark
gropec1386
gripea1599
a1599 R. Rollock Serm. in Sel. Wks. (1849) I. 460 We should gripe down to the heart from whence the prayers of the godly do flow.
2. transitive. gen. To lay hold of, seize, catch, grasp; to get into one's power or possession. †In Old English and Middle English also occasionally: To take, receive. Obsolete exc. archaic.
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the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)]
gripea900
afangOE
to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE
repeOE
atfonga1000
keepc1000
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kip1297
seize1338
to seize on or upon1399
to grip toc1400
rapc1415
to rap and rendc1415
comprise1423
forsetc1430
grip1488
to put (one's) hand(s) on (also in, to, unto, upon)1495
compass1509
to catch hold1520
hap1528
to lay hold (up)on, of1535
seisin?c1550
cly1567
scratch1582
attach1590
asseizea1593
grasp1642
to grasp at1677
collar1728
smuss1736
get1763
pin1768
grabble1796
bag1818
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nobble1877
jump1882
snaffle1902
snag1962
pull1967
a900 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 57/9 Ne capiaris, ðet ðu ne sio gripen.
a1000 Solomon & Saturn 151 Hwilum flotan gripað.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 1969 Grure grap euch mon hwen he lokede þeron.
a1240 Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 273 Hare praie þat tai hefden grediliche gripen.
a1300 E.E. Psalter ix. 16 In þis snare..Gripen es þe fote ofe þa.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iii. 235 Heo that gripeth heore ȝiftus.
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 204 Coveityse is ever wood To grypen other folkes good.
c1421 T. Hoccleve Complaint 265 Othar thinge the[n] woo may I none grype.
1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) sig. Svii Woldest thou gripe both gaine and pleasure?
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie iii. 15 He whiche grypeth too much can hardly holde it.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 57 To gripe the general sway into your hand. View more context for this quotation
1608 Yorkshire Trag. sig. D2 Let me intreat to speak with her before the prison gripe me.
1670 T. Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 376 They greedily griped the possessions of the church.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xvii. 257 We gripped nothing but a fat baillie of Perth. View more context for this quotation
3. in extended use.1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 178 The hard frost griped all things bitterly.† c. To enclose in a tight embrace, encircle tightly. Obsolete.
a. To clutch, seize firmly, or grasp tightly with hand, paw, claw, or the like; to grip. Also said of the hand.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > hold firmly, grip, or grasp
clipOE
agropeOE
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umbegrip?a1400
clitchc1400
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grappe?c1450
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screw1617
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firm1859
bear-hug1919
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8125 Mann grap þa þatt cnif himm fra.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8995 Heo [the Irish] to biliue & gripen [c1300 Otho neomen] heore cniues. & of mid here breches.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 10585 Cheldrich and his ohte men leopen heom to horse. and grepen [c1275 Calig. igripen] hire wepne.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1872 [He] grop an ore, and a long knif.
13.. Sir Beues (MS. A.) 2485 Be þe riȝt leg ȝhe him grep.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 9 She griped hir be the shulders, and put hir owt at the dore.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 575/2 He that taketh to moche in his hande at ones grypeth it yll.
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 69 Par trop presser l'anguille, on la perd, he that grypes an Eele too hard, is in danger to lose it.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 20 A bird..so strong as in her tallons can easily gripe and trusse up an Elephant.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 543 Let each..gripe fast his orbed Shield. View more context for this quotation
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 34 One of her Hands was clasp'd round the Frame of a Chair, and she grip'd it so hard that we could not easily make her let go.
1781 W. Cowper Charity 525 Conjecture gripes the victims in his paw.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons II. vii. iii. 313 Hilyard griped his dagger.
a1863 W. M. Thackeray Denis Duval (1869) vi. 78 When my mother lifted her hand, I..griped it so tight that I frightened her.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxi. 534 So slender at the upper end that a man may easily gripe it.
b. Surgery. (Cf. gripe n.1 1d).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > stopping haemorrhage > stop haemorrhage [verb (transitive)] > close vein or artery > by compression
compress1804
gripe1830
1830 S. Cooper Dict. Pract. Surg. (ed. 6) 819 With the fingers the calculus was next griped.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)] > embrace tightly
strainc1374
gripec1400
hug1567
locka1593
constrain1697
creem1746
to strain (a person) to one's bosom1789
squdge1870
c1400 Siege Jerusalem (1932) 73/1249 No gretter þan a grehounde, to grype in þe medil.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxxii. 655 He..griped him sore in his armes.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxviii. [clxiv.] 468 They gryped fast their horses with their legges.
1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. G.iv The Adiutor bone..is..crooked because it shoulde be the more habler to grype thinges.
1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. C2v With my ful hand Ile gripe him to the hart.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xviii. 644 The Children, in whose Arms are born (Too short to gripe them) the brown Sheaves of Corn.
1758 J. Kennedy Curiosities of Wilton House 41 Hercules wrestling with Antaeus; he only gripes him high from the Ground.
d. absol.
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1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 47/2 The property of the hande is to gripe and take houlde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. i. 40 We haue..many among vs, can gripe as hard as Cassibulan. View more context for this quotation
1723 Flying Post 11–13 Apr. in Masonic Mag. (1881) 9 25 Examination of a Mason..To Gripe, is when you take a Brother by the right Hand and put your middle Finger to his Wrist, and he'll do so to you.
1741 H. Brooke Constantia in Chalmers Poets (1810) XVII. 397/2 Struggling they gripe, they pull, they bend, they strain.
1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves in Friend 21 Sept. 95 At first She gently press'd her hand, Then harder, till her Grasp at length Did gripe like a convulsion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > posture > act of drawing body into compact form > drawn into compact form [verb (transitive)] > clench > the fist
gripea1634
a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 137 Wee are borne the Children of wrath with our hands griped-close together.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 191 Unlucky O—! thy lordly master The more thou ticklest, gripes his fist the faster.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (transitive)]
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acknowOE
anyeteOE
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understandc1000
underyetec1000
afindOE
knowOE
seeOE
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kenc1330
gripea1340
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comprendc1374
espyc1374
perceivea1387
to take for ——?1387
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receivea1616
to take up1617
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to take in1646
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a1340 R. Rolle Psalter ii. 12 Gripes disciplyne [L. apprehendite disciplinam], leswhen lord wreth.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 13 All the things we can gripe in our minds.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 137 It gripes within the bounds of its wide verge the restlesness that we are..justling with.
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 62 Can such a Soul contract itself, to gripe A Point of no Dimension, of no Weight?
6. To oppress by miserly or penurious treatment; to ‘pinch’, ‘squeeze’. (Said also of poverty.)
ΚΠ
a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) v. 8 Seest thou..poor men grip'd beneath th' oppressours hand?
c1680 W. Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 198 All that oppress and gripe poor workmen in their prices.
1729 R. Savage Wanderer (1761) iii. 49 For this, he grip'd the Poor, and Alms denied.
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Gripe,..also to pinch, grind, or give a Person too little for their Wages or Goods.
1853 C. Dickens Long Voy. in Househ. Words 31 Dec. 412/1 He feeds him when he himself is griped with want.
a1868 Ld. Brougham (Ogilv.) A disposition is everywhere exhibited by men in office to gripe and squeeze all submitted to their authority.
7. To grieve, afflict, distress.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex
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dretchc900
awhenec1000
teenOE
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annoyc1300
atrayc1320
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diseasec1340
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angerc1400
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vex1418
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entrouble?1435
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to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450
disprofit1483
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trouble1515
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mis-set?1553
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grate1555
gripe1559
spitec1563
fike?1572
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touch1581
disaccommodate1586
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perplex1590
thorn1592
exulcerate1593
plague1595
incommode1598
affret1600
brier1601
to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603
discommodate1606
incommodate1611
to grate on or upon1631
disincommodate1635
shog1636
ulcerate1647
incommodiate1650
to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653
discommodiate1654
discommode1657
ruffle1659
regrate1661
disoblige1668
torment1718
pesta1729
chagrin1734
pingle1740
bothera1745
potter1747
wherrit1762
to tweak the nose of1784
to play up1803
tout1808
rasp1810
outrage1818
worrit1818
werrit1825
buggerlug1850
taigle1865
get1867
to give a person the pip1881
to get across ——1888
nark1888
eat1893
to twist the tail1895
dudgeon1906
to tweak the tail of1909
sore1929
to put up1930
wouldn't it rip you!1941
sheg1943
to dick around1944
cheese1946
to pee off1946
to honk off1970
to fuck off1973
to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977
to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983
to wind up1984
to dick about1996
to-teen-
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Mowbray xxix Grief gryped me so, I pyned awaye and dyed.
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Bvj Those which inwardly with griefe, Are gryped in their minde.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. iv. 172 How inlie anger gripes his hart.
1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life xxiii. 307 How sick was his Conscience assoon as he had swallowed it... It griped him to the heart.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. ix. 150 What ails thee? What is 't gripes thee, elf? A face like thine beheld I never.
1905 R. E. Beach Pardners 25 It gripes me to hear a man cry.
1941 J. M. Cain Mildred Pierce (1943) 88 What's griping him is that he can't do anything for the kids.
8.
a. To affect with ‘gripes’; to produce griping pains in. Now chiefly in past participle: see griped adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > suffer pain in specific parts [verb (transitive)] > in stomach or bowels
fretc1275
wresta1529
gripe1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trenchaisonner, to wring or gripe like the Cholicke, &c.
1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. sig. A7v The thought of To[bacco] his intrailes more doth gripe Then Physicks art.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xv. 39 Such persons fasting, are often griped in their Bellies.
1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 7 Jan. (1948) II. 457 I..came home, because I was not very well, but a little griped.
1760 R. Brooke in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 76 They were much griped, and purged more than 20 times in 24 hours.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Sept. 3/2 Anybody calling for champagne or claret at a place of public entertainment..is certain to be cheated, and..very likely to be griped.
b. absol. To produce pain in the bowels as if by constriction or contraction; to cause ‘gripes’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > suffer pain in specific parts [verb (intransitive)] > in stomach or bowels
gripe1702
1702 J. Floyer in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1171 Crato describes Sena as if it had Viscidum quid, by which it gripes.
1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 129 Scammony..is..apt to gripe.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 464 Whenever senna is exhibited, an aromatic should be united with it, to lessen its tendency to gripe.
9. Nautical.
a. transitive. To secure (a boat) with ‘gripes’. (In past participle only, also griped to.)
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > tie up
trice?a1400
stopper1769
stop1771
gripe1840
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxiv. 76 We got..the launch and pinnace hoisted, chocked and griped.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Griped-to, the situation of a boat when secured by gripes.
b. intransitive. Said of a ship which has a tendency to come up into the wind in spite of the helm, as when sailing close-hauled.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > be steered > admit of being steered (well or ill) > tend to turn into wind
gripe1627
weathercock1952
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xi. 53 Not [to] gripe..is when shee will not keepe a winde well.
1870 Eng. Mech. 25 Feb. 580/1 A cutter is sometimes apt to ‘gripe’; that is, to turn its bowsprit suddenly up in the wind.
1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §325 A steamer with sail..griping so badly with any after canvass that it is often impossible to steer.
10. intransitive. To complain, ‘grouse’.
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
1932 Amer. Speech June 332 Gripe, to complain.
1934 F. S. Fitzgerald Tender is Night ii. i. 153 In some moods he griped at his own reasoning: Could I help it.
1940 New Yorker 21 Sept. 37 He got good and sore and griped.
1947 D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 199 Old Snow was griping away about his girl turning him down.
1963 Time 30 Aug. 18/2 Ike..griped publicly: ‘There are too many of these generals who have all sorts of ideas.’
1967 Boston Traveler 27/2 People are always griping about kids hanging around and being at the wrong places at the wrong time.
Compounds
gripe-all n. a grasping, avaricious person.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [noun] > inordinate desire of possessions > one who has
yisserc1200
puttocka1500
Mammon1622
grasperc1628
snig1629
suck-egg1685
esurient1691
gripe-all1823
hake1855
1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 34 The city gripeall who has amassed his million.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gripp'argent, a Gripe-money, or Catch-coyne.
gripe-penny n. = gripe-money n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. Gripe-penny, a niggard, a miser. Mackenzie.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Tourniquet A Turn-Still: also the Gripe-stick us'd by Surgeons..in cutting off an Arm, &c.
Derivatives
ˈgriping n. slang (originally U.S.)
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
1945 E. Ford Larry Scott v. 51 I've already told him that the newspaper game is a lousy business, so you can save your griping for somebody else.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Nov. 678/1 Let us get the griping over quickly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
gripev.2
/ɡrʌɪp/, U.S. /ɡraɪp/ regional.
transitive. = grip v.2
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society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > make trench or ditch
groopc1330
dikea1375
pot1595
grip1597
gripe1597
1597 Stanford Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquary (1888) May 212 For gripinge the church acre jd.
1805 Price in Ann. Agric. 43 123 [Land] must be cleared of the surface water by griping or under-draining.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 315 In the following autumn, immediately after the drawing is completed, the plants left standing are to be worked well and deeply with the spade: this operation is generally termed griping.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Grip, Gripe, to make shallow ditches or grips.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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