Middle English Dictionary Entry
grucchere n.
Entry Info
| Forms | grucchere n. Also gruchcher, grudger, gurcher. |
| Etymology | From grucchen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One who complains; a slanderer, tale-bearer; (b) complaint.
Associated quotations
a
- a1250 Ancr.(Tit D.18:Morton)108 : Ho is grucchere, & ful itohen, dangeruse & tor for to paien.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ecclus.5.17 : To the priue grucchere [WB(2): bacbitere; L susurratori] forsothe hate, and enemyte, and strif.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Jude 2.16 : Thes ben grucchers [WB(2): grutcheris; L murmuratores] pleynynge, or ful of pleyntis, wandringe up her desijres.
- a1425 Adam & E.(3) (Wht)99/9 : Wickide men and gruchchers, thei seken for to speke aftir her owne coueitynge.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)217 : Grutchare: Murmurator, murmuratrix.
- a1475 Rev.St.Bridget(3) (Gar 145)33/8 : Marie oweth nott to be idle, ne no gurcher.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)58a : A Grochere [Monson: Grucher]: hic murmurator, susurrio.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)694/10 : Hic murmurator: a grocher.
b
- (?1467) Paston (Gairdner)4.281 : I trost veryly that he nothyr hath ne shall have cause of grudger by my defaut, for I can not understond ony cause of grudger.