grutch

American  

[gruhch] / grʌtʃ /

noun

British Dialect.

1. grudge.

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Etymology

Origin of grutch

1175–1225; Middle English. See grudge

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

grutch

Go to then, seeing that my mother's will is such, To put it in adventure I may not grutch.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt

For at my first sending to come ye neuer grutch.

From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Edward Arber

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.

From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Besides," he drawled softly, "I've got a privut grutch agin him of my own, an' I'm goin' to beat yuh to it if I kin."

From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer

Thanks to your majesty, his usage shall be such As he thereat shall think no cause to grutch.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

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