grucche
Middle English
Etymology
See grudge.
Verb
grucche (third-person singular simple present grucches, present participle grucching, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle grucched)
- To murmur; to grumble.
- 1387, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Clerk's Tale, pages 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?
Swere this, and heere I swere oure alliance.
References
- “grucche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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