grouch
Plural: grouches
Noun
- a bad-tempered person
- A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
- One who is grumpy or irritable.
Verb
Verb Forms: grouched, grouching, grouches
- To complain grumblingly; to express discontent.
- show one's unhappiness or critical attitude
- To be grumpy or irritable; to complain.
Examples
- Don’t GROUCH about the tile draw; make the best of it!
- He spent all his time grouching about the problem instead of fixing it.
- I don't feel like hanging around with that grouch.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English grouchen, variant of grucchen (“to complain, mumble, murmur”). See grutch.
Synonyms
churl, crank, crosspatch, grumble, grump, scold, beef, bellyache, bellyacher, bemoan, bitch, bleat, carp, carper, castigator, caviler, censurer, chunter, complain, complainer, crab, crabber, critic, criticizer, croak, dump on, faultfinder, findfault, frine, girn, give out, gripe, grotch, grouch, grouse, grumbler, gruntle, hafter, harp, inveigh, kvetch, kvetcher, latrant, latrate, make a stink, moan, murmur, mutter, nag, nark, nitpicker, nudzh, pettifogger, pick-fault, pinch, piss and moan, quibbler, rail, repine, ride, scolder, smellfungus, snivel, sourpuss, squeaky wheel, troublemaker, vituperator, whine, whiner, whinge, whinger, whining Willy
Scrabble Score: 12
grouch: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgrouch: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
grouch: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary