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
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
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
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
Ain't he all I've got in the wide world and you grutch me that?
From Still Jim by Honoré Morrow
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