gripe
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gripe¹
- /ɡɹaɪp/
Rhymes with -aɪp
Where it comes from
From Middle English gripen, from Old English grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, grasp”). Cognate with West Frisian gripe, Low German griepen, Dutch grijpen, German greifen, Danish gribe, Norwegian Bokmål gripe, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish gripa, Icelandic grípa. See also grip, grope.
verb gripes · griping · griped · grope
- To complain; to whine. In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is b
- To annoy or bother. What's griping you?
- To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
- To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances. How inly sorrow gripes his soul.
- To suffer griping pains. the griping of an hungry belly
- To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something). Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came.
- To seize or grasp. Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure?
noun gripes
- A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
- A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
- Grasp; clutch; grip. A barren sceptre in my gripe.
- That which is grasped; a handle; a grip. the gripe of a sword
- A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
- Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress. the gripe of poverty
- Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
gripe²
noun gripes
- Alternative form of grip (trench, ditch, furrow).grip “There was no use at all, you see, in thinkin' to run for it, for they wor dhrivin' at the rate uv a hunt; so down I got into the gripe o' the ditch, thinkin' to snake off wid mysilf while they war op'nin' the gate.”
gripe³
noun gripes
- Alternative form of grype.grype
