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▪ I. grutching, vbl. n. Obs. exc. arch. and dial.|ˈgrʌtʃɪŋ|
Forms: see grutch v.
[f. grutch v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb grutch; murmuring, complaining; murmur, complaint, reluctance.
a1225Ancr. R. 114 Grucchunge of bitter & of sur heorte is him surre & bitture. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3332 Quad moyses,.. ‘Ille gruching is ȝu for-bead’. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 53 What grayþed me þe grychchyng bot grame more seche? 1340Ayenb. 67 Of grochinge, þet is of him þet ne dar naȝt ansuerie. 1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 9 He hym levit with a gruching. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 188 Amonestynge recewe thou gladly, and reprowynge wythout wrath or gurchynge. c1450Lonelich Merlin 476 (Kölbing) Loke thow love..thy neyghbour with owten grochcheng. 1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iii. iii. 144 Wyth grutchynge they gyue an halfe peny or a peny unto Ihesu cryst. 1645Arraignm. Persecution 4 It divideth their Powers one against another, and in themselves occasioneth murmurings, grutchings, and repinings. 1683Tryon Way to Health 432 There being no Grutching, Envying or Contention amongst them. 1847L. Hunt Jar Honey ii. 17 Scylla hath words, but words well-stored with grutching. 1892Stevenson Vailima Lett. (1895) 241 The rest is grunting and grutching.
b. Of the conscience. rare—1.
c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xx. 25 Grucching of conscience & dispersion of herte.
†c. = grudging vbl. n. 2.
1621B. Jonson Gipsies Met. (near end), Or from any Gowtes least grutching. Blesse the Sov'raigne, and his touching.
▪ II. † ˈgrutching, ppl. a. Obs.
[f. grutch v. + -ing2.]
Grumbling, complaining; reluctant.
a1225Ancr. R. 108 (MS. C.) Ha is grucinde and dangerus, and arueð forto paiȝen. a1400Morte Arth. 1076 He gapede, he groned faste, with grucchande latez. 1490Caxton How to die 6 Many ther be that ben Impacyent & grutchynge. c1520Mayd Emlyn 183 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 89 She answered hym With wordes grotchynge. 1712Spect. No. 292 ⁋4 A grutching uncommunicative Disposition.
Hence † ˈgrutchingly adv.
1340Ayenb. 193 More likeþ..to god an alfpeny þet a poure yefþ gledliche..þanne a riche man yeaue an hondred marc grochindeliche and mid zorȝe of herte. 1382Wyclif Ecclus. xii. 19 Many thingus grucchendeli whistrende [Vulg. multa susurrans]. c1400Trojan War ii. 1641 in Horstm. Barbour's Leg. II. 275/1 Thaime grauntede wes Half gruchandly. |