grutch
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of grutch
1175–1225; Middle English. See grudge
Example Sentences
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"Bill has an awful grutch agin preachers," said Mrs. Buttles, as she wiped her hands on her apron.
From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
But what we're born for, we must bear: Our frail condition it is such That what to all may happen here, If 't chance to me, I must not grutch.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"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
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
Weel, that's jist the ae thing I grutch ye—na, no grutch—I'm glaid ye hae't—but the ae thing I wud fain be a scholar for mysel'!
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald
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