grutch
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of grutch
1175–1225; Middle English. See grudge
Example Sentences
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Ain't he all I've got in the wide world and you grutch me that?
From Still Jim by Honoré Morrow
Or do you love yourself so much, To bear all rivals else a grutch?
From Hudibras by Samuel Butler
"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 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
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
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