grutch

American  

[gruhch] / grʌtʃ /

noun

British Dialect.

1. grudge.

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Etymology

Origin of grutch

1175–1225; Middle English. See grudge

Example Sentences

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 Hazlitt, William Carew

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 MacDonald, George

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 Arber, Edward

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

"Bill has an awful grutch agin preachers," said Mrs. Buttles, as she wiped her hands on her apron.

From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin