grudge
/ɡɹʌd͡ʒ/ noun, verb
Forms grudges grudging grudged
- noun (countable) Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment. “to have, hold, owe or bear a grudge against someone”
- verb To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
- verb (obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
- verb (obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
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Etymology
A variant of grutch (mid 15th-century, younger than begrudge), from Middle English grucchen (“to murmur, complain, feel envy, begrudge”), from Old French grouchier, groucier (“to murmur, grumble”), of Germanic origin, probably ultimately imitative.
Akin to Middle High German grogezen (“to howl, wail”), German grocken (“to croak”). Compare also Old Norse krytja (“to murmur”), Old High German grunzen (“to grunt”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; --followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects.
- verb To hold or harbor with malicioua disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. [Obs.]
- verb To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant.
- verb To feel compunction or grief. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.
Etymology [OE. grutchen, gruchen, grochen, to murmur, grumble, OF. grochier, grouchier, grocier, groucier; cf. Icel. krytja to murmur, krutr a murmur, or E. grunt.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “grudge”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details