Middle English Dictionary Entry
grucchen v.
Entry Info
Forms | grucchen v. Also grucch, gruch(en, gru(c)chi, gruchch(en, grutchen, grwcchen, gurch(en, grusken & grocchen, groch(en, grochi, grochchen, groschen & grichgen, gritch & grechen, gretchen & grǒu(c)chen & gruǧen, gruggen, grucgen, grogen, grughe & grucen. P. grucchede, etc. & grudchid, grǒuht, grū̆ȝt, gright; ppl. igruched, groched, gricchit & gright, griȝt. |
Etymology | OF gro(u)chier, var. of grocier, groucier, grucier. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To murmur, grumble; complain (about or at sb. or sth.), find fault (with sb. or sth.), be dissatisfied: (a) without obj.; ppl. as adj. grucching, peevish, querulous, discontented, disagreeable; (b) with that clause; (c) with at, aye, ayen, ayenes, of, on, to, toward, upon, or with phrase.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)31a : Hwa is þenne efter þis..þe gruccheð ȝef ha naueð nawt oðer mete oðer drunch efter hire eise?
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)49b : Ne grucchi ȝe..hwen me gulteð wið ow.
- ?c1225 Ancr.(Cleo C.6:Morton)108 : Ha is grucinde & dangerus & arueð forto paiȝen.
- c1275 Ken.Serm.(LdMisc 471)220/217 : Þo gruchchede hi a menges hem.
- c1300 SLeg.Edm.King (LdMisc 108)41 : Þis holie man stod euere stille; he ne grochchede nouȝt ene.
- ?c1335 Elde makiþ me (Hrl 913)p.171 : I grunt, i grone, i grenne, i gruche.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)67/5 : Þe ilke þet ne dar ansuerye ne chide þet he beginþ to grochi betuene his teþ and grunny.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)271 : Þe cherl grocching forþ goþ wiþ þe gode child.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Nah.2.7 : The hond maydens therof shuln be dryuen sorewyng as culuers, grucchynge [WB(2): grutchynge; L murmurantes] in her hertis.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.77 : Alle þe ymages gonne to grucche and to aryse [L cum fremitu insurgentibus].
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.507 : They seyn harm and grucche and murmure pryuely for verray despit.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.2193 : Whanne he doth extorcion with manye an other vice mo, Men schal noght finden on of tho To groucche or speke therayein.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)28100 : Gayn my better haue i bene Bath in dedes and wordes kene, Wit grochyng strijf and wit bakbite, wrangwys haue i wryþen wyte.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)7.202 : Ȝif þe [g]omes grucche, bidde hem gon & swynke.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.3490 : He hath outterly yseyn, Þouȝ he gruche, þat þer was no geyn.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Is.10.14 : Noon was that mouyde a fethere, and openyde the mouth, and grutchide [WB(1): berkyd; L ganniret].
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)3542 : If he it [tribulation] thole noght grotchand, In-stede of penance it sal hym stand.
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)8/32 : Ne be noht slau, Ne gruchande.
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)439/1470 : That dreed off deth nor duplycyte Myhte make the gruchch in thy mortal greuance.
- (c1438) MKempe B (Add 61823)232/37 : Hir felaschep thowt þei sped no wey & weryn heuy & grutchyng.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)217 : Grutchon: Murmuro.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)1462 : Thare ware gomes..Grisely gayspande with grucchande lotes.
- a1450(c1400) Wor.Serm.(Wor F.10)66/530 : Wha[n] a was led to His passiun-ward, He neuer gretched, no neuer spak word a-ȝen.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)723 : Obediens þus..To god & man es acceptabil, Not to tary ne gruch o-gayne.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)1.851 : The commouns grutchynge and euere at debate.
- a1475 Rev.St.Bridget(3) (Gar 145)28/16 : I was scourgett and crownede with thornes, and gurched nott.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)1.734 : He is..with grete disdeyne and grucchyng chire..driven of beggers loore for to leere.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)24.5 com. : I gruchid noght what sa thou did til me.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)10/7 : Þei haue peyne, & sone & liȝtly gretchin [vr. gruccheth; L murmurant].
- a1450 Rolle MPass.(2) (BodeMus 232)33/185 : Graunt me suffraunce and streynthe..nevyr to gurch for tribulacion and angyr.
- c1500(a1449) Lydg.Aesop (Trin-C R.3.19)417 : What God sendeþ, hit ys to þeyr plesance, Thankeþ þe lorde, grogeþ for no nede.
b
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.500 : Agayns god it is whan a man gruccheth..that shrewes han prosperitee.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.156 : It were no nede..To mvse so nor grucchen in ȝoure herte, Of al þis hoste þat I haue gouernance.
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)359 : Grutche we not þat many men þenken ful hevy wiþ þis sentence.
c
- a1250 Wooing Lord (Tit D.18)275 : Aȝaines al þe wa and te pinfule wundes neauer ne opnedes ti muð to grucchen aȝaines.
- c1300 SLeg.MPChr.(LdMisc 108)211 : Þat folk grochchede toward ore louerd for he with a sunful man wende.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)30/8 : Uor zome misual þet his wyl ne is naȝt y-do þet ha grocheþ aye our lhord.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)40.8 : Alle myn enemys grucched oȝains me, and þouten iuels to me.
- ?a1425(?c1350) NHom.(3) Pass.(RwlPoet 175)2191 : To God þai groched all bi-dene.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Josh.9.18 : So grucgede al þe comyn aȝeyns þe princys.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.20.11 : Thei..grutcheden aȝeins the husbond man.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.3062 : Why grucchen heere his cosyn and his wyf Of his welfare?
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.504 : Symon the Pharisee grucched agayn the Magdeleyne whan she approched to Iesu Crist and weep at his feet for hire synnes.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)10.116 : Loke þou grucche nouȝt on god þeiȝ he gyue þe litel.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.7888 : Some of hem grucchid at him strong.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.3234 : It is to late To grucche or strive ageyn my pitous fate.
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.15/2 : Many preuatly, many also opynly aȝenste the seruant of God cesid nat to gruge.
- ?1435 Lond.Chron.Jul.(Jul B.2)79 : My seyde lorde off Gloucestre grucched with the seyde maner off enforcyng off the Toure.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)27.58 : Iob..Ne Grochched Aȝens his Creatour.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2:Peacock)1163 : Hast þow be inpacyent For any gref that god þe sent; Or elles I-gruched agaynes hyt.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)30 : A gret folye me thinketh Whan ye gon thus grucchinge of my yiftes and spekinge and murmuringe.
- (c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)15/8 : Þe wordes of Seynt Ambrose abiden in his soule magr his hed, and were dayly grucching a-geyn swech lif as he had.
- a1456(a1402) *Trev.Nicod.(Add 16165)98b : Þanne þe Iuwes gruskedde and groyned on Nichodemus.
- (c1469) Stonor1.104 : And yff so be that ȝowr conscyense do groge ther at, that ȝe wod do make astate wnto me.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)215/175 : For to grugge ageyns godys myght Aȝens hyȝ god ȝe do offens.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)132 : Thai woll than at euery mele groche with the kynge.
- (a1475) Fortescue Dial.UF (Vit E.10)485 : Though so be that the pacient grugge and compleyn uppon his phisisian..the wise phisisian wil nat graunt all his request.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)83 : The comons of Rome complained and grugged in open market places ayenst the saide gret astatis and governours of Rome.
- c1475 There stood (Trin-C R.3.21)102 : Why shuld we..Groge with peyne or aduersite?
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton:EETS)84/246 (f.64ra) : The chyldren .. remembrid of the flesshe that they ete in Egypte and grudchyd agayn Moyses.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)9.1 com. : The prophet spekis agayns thaim that grucchis with ese of ill men.
2.
(a) To moan; to lament; to mourn over (sth.); (b) fig. of the arm, the stomach: to suffer, become helpless.
Associated quotations
a
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)2295 : He leid hym doune..And with dremes grocched euer among, Ther he lay to the larke song.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)457 : For þis gamyn & þis gle, þou schalt grocchyn & grone.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)161/2834 : He schal bothe grwcchyn & gryse.
- c1450 From þe tyme (Lamb 853)68 : Þan may we do no greet traueile But summtyme grone, & sumtyme grucche.
- a1475(a1456) Shirley Death Jas.(Add 5467)7 : Whos deth the people of the land sore grutched, and mowrnid.
- c1450(c1400) Emare (Clg A.2)669 : And euur she lay and growht [rime: mowth, sowthe, kowþe].
b
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)37/14 : Seynt Gregorye was so ouer-sette throuȝ prayingis, fastyngis, studyes that the stomak gruchede and he wax seke.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)197/1 : The arme of the smyter grucchid and was inflexible and ne myȝt noȝt bowe.
3.
(a) To be angry; ppl. as adj. gruching, angry; ?also, as adv. indignantly; (b) to annoy, vex, afflict; (c) ~ with teth, to gnash (one's) teeth.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)2126 : 'Grant merci,' quoþ Gawayn, & gruchyng he sayde, 'Wel worth þe' [etc.].
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)1353 : Sir Gawayne..Graythes towarde þe gome with grucchande herte.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)2557 : Thane sir Gawayne was greuede, and grychgide full sore.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)44.259 : They..Wysten..that he was torned to Cristendom..and gonnen to Grosschen Everichon.
- c1475 Awntyrs Arth.(Tay 9)p.19 : Gauan grechut [Dc: greches] ther with, and greuut wundur sore.
b
- a1500(a1475) Ashby Dicta (Cmb Mm.4.42)83/895 : For it is gretter synne..To do ayeinste conscience in suche guise, Whiche shal frete and gruge in your soule & mynde.
c
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)5.1309 : There is noon that it seeth But for feer he gruggeth with his teeth.
4.
(a) To dispute; disagree; ?also, resist, protest, withstand; (b) ~ ayen, ~ with, to oppose (sb.); disagree (with sb.).
Associated quotations
a
- c1330 Degare (Auch)574 : Sire Degarre so þriste him þan þat, maugre whoso grochche bigan, Out of þe sadel he him cast.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1158 : Maugre who gruccheþ or makeþ any strif, Vn-to þis lond we schal a-geyn retourne.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.4327 : Al þe tresour & riches of þe tovn, þei toke anoon in to her pocessioun, who euer grucche or be lef or lothe.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.6529 : We ben..lik liest to stonde For to parforme what we take on honde, Who þat euere grucche or sey nay.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)1139 : This was hool the composicioun A-twene the bretheren and conuencioun..Neuer after to groch ne to varye.
- c1440 Bonav.Medit.(3) (Thrn)199 : Ther was also In hym [Christ] þe will of sensualite and þat gruchede and was afferde to suffire dede.
- ?a1450(?c1400) Wycl.LFCatech.(Lamb 408)18/322 : Þus techis our be-leue how-euyr antecrist grucchis.
b
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)158 : Ful hard it is to the To wynse or grucch aȝene me in ony wyse.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)9367 : Toax..with Menelay..Gright with the gret & agayne stode.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)11424 : Hym was leuer to the ledis lelly assent, Than grucche þere agayne, & greue hym þe farre.
5.
(a) To decline; refuse (sb.); (b) to deny (a request); be reluctant to permit (an action or situation); ~ with; (c) to refuse to grant (sth. to sb.), begrudge; (d) to be reluctant (to do sth.); refuse (to do sth.).
Associated quotations
a
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1450 : Grucche nouȝt þer-a-gayn but godli..Graunte þis faire forward fulfillen in haste.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)15774 : [Q]uen iudas bed iesus to kisse, forsoth he groched noght.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)810 : Loth laþed so longe wyth luflych wordez Þat pay [?read: þay] hym graunted to go, and gruȝt no lenger.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.4035 : Haueþ no disdeyn Of my request, nor gruchiþ nat at al.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)3874 : Þat the Grekes hym grauntid, grucchet þai noght.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)58a : To Groche: dedignatur [Monson: dedignare].
- 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2124)254/142 : Fetch..an asse and her fole..if any man gritch you..soone will the let them goe.
b
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6465 : If that prelates grucchen it..I shal yeve hem a strok or two.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)706 : Ne gruche noghte my ganggynge, it sall to gude turne.
- (c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)20/31 : Grucch not my dede.
- a1475 Against Lollards (Vsp B.16)p.246 : What unkyndly gost Shuld greve that God grucchede nouȝt!
- c1475 Brm.Abraham (Brm)80 : Lord, I am sore aferd To groche ony thyng a-ȝens ȝowre wyll.
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)2733 : Thou groge not but graunt it me, That I shall to þe sey, My askyng.
- a1500 Wars Alex.(Dub 213)1467 : For me hed leuer..bene letherly forsworne..Than onys haue greved þis gome or groched with [Ashm: warned him] hys erand!
c
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)13263 : Þair heling groched he þam noght.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1347 : If þay [gods] gruchen him his grace to gremen his hert, He..knokkes hem to peces.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)2251 : I schal gruch þe no grwe for grem þat fallez.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)7072 : Hit shalbe gricchit hym þat grace in his grete nede.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)9956 : Ho purpost hir plainly..Neuer the grete for to grutche..All his lust & his lykyng.
- a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)9578 : The Holi Gost may not by griȝt fulle god-hede.
- 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2124)36/397 : Against mankinde..To whom grace cleane is gright.
d
- c1230 *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)52b : Þe fifte hwelp hatte inobedience, nawt ane þe ne buheð, oðer grucchinde deð, oðer targeð to longe.
- a1425(?a1400) PCounsel.(Hrl 674)171/3 : He seide to his disciples, þe whiche grocheden to forgo his bodely presence.
- ?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.(Göt Hist 740)24879 : To rin on þam greteli þai groched; Nane of þam with ille þam tochede.
- (1442) Doc.Ireland in RS 69286 : I grutchede to ensele þe seide exemplificacions.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)37/70 : If þou..Grouche noȝt geue hym tente parte of all.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)289/473 : Iff þou be Criste þat þou telle me, And God sone þou grughe not to graunte ye.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)9315 : If he gright with the grekes to graunt hom his helpe, Þat þai the lond shuld leue & lightly go home.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)200/174 : Gruch thou neuer in this degre To baptyse hym.