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grouch
[ grouch ]
verb (used without object)
- to be sulky or morose; show discontent; complain, especially in an irritable way.
noun
- a sulky, complaining, or morose person.
Synonyms: grumbler, killjoy, crab, spoilsport
- a sulky, irritable, or morose mood.
grouch
/ ɡraʊtʃ /
verb
- to complain; grumble
noun
- a complaint, esp a persistent one
- a person who is always grumbling
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Origin of grouch1
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Example Sentences
Things go well until Oscar the Grouch is diagnosed with a burst appendix and Romney discovers he is uninsured.
He pictured himself as an old grouch, soured on the world, and surely uncompanionable.
"Lumpy's got on the grouch that won't come off," grinned Big-foot.
One weazened grouch, Hank Burns, who had been a miner for forty years, tried to account for it.
Behind the back of Monsieur P—— they grouch; before his face they grovel.
No need to gloom or grouch or fret, no need to howl or whine; but may the right to voice a grief or own a pain be mine.
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