grouch

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grouch

/ɡɹaʊt͡ʃ/

Rhymes with -aʊtʃ

Where it comes from

From Middle English grouchen, variant of grucchen (“to complain, mumble, murmur”). See grutch.

noun grouches

A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor. But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch.
One who is grumpy or irritable. I don't feel like hanging around with that grouch.
Similar: bellyacher, carper, castigator, caviler, censurer, complainer, crabber, critic, criticizer, faultfinder, findfault, grouch

verb grouches · grouching · grouched

intransitive To be grumpy or irritable; to complain. He spent all his time grouching about the problem instead of fixing it.
Similar: beef, bellyache, bemoan, bitch, bleat, whimper, carp, chunter, complain, crab, croak, dump on

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noun one who is grumpy or irritable

Español	gruñón, gruñona, vinagre, refunfuñón, refunfuñona, quejica
Français	grincheux, grognon
Deutsch	Griesgram
Русский	ворчун vorčun, брюзга brjuzga

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@misc{grouch_2026,
  title = {grouch},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grouch},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}