grutchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

The verb is from Middle English grucchen (attested since c. 1200), from Old French grouchier (“to grumble”), of unknown origin, perhaps from Germanic, and likely of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Frankish *grōtijan (“to accuse, yell at, make cry, scold”). The noun is from Middle English grucche, from the verb; it is attested since about 1400. See also grudge, grouch, grouse.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹʌt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -ʌtʃ

動詞

grutch (三人称単数 現在形 grutches, 現在分詞 grutching, 過去形および過去分詞形 grutched)

1. (intransitive) To murmur, complain.
   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company:

     "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."

2. (obsolete) To grudge.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 2:

     But that their natures bad appeard in both:
     For both did at their second Sister grutch

名詞

grutch (複数形 grutches)

1. A complaint.
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1:

     In it he melted lead for bullets,
     To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets;
     To whom he bore so fell a grutch,
     He ne'er gave quarter t' any such.