different between gripe vs faultfinding

English

Etymology

From Middle English gripen, from Old English gr?pan, from Proto-Germanic *gr?pan?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?reyb- (“to grab, grasp”). Cognate with West Frisian gripe, Low German griepen, Dutch grijpen, German greifen, Danish gribe, Swedish gripa. See also grip, grope.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Verb

gripe (third-person singular simple present gripes, present participle griping, simple past griped or (obsolete) grope, past participle griped or (obsolete) gripen)

1. (intransitive, informal) To complain; to whine.
2. (transitive, informal) To annoy or bother.

   What's griping you?

3. (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
5. (intransitive) To suffer griping pains.
6. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
7. (archaic, transitive) To seize or grasp.
   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (sometimes spelt Raphe Robynson) (translator), Utopia (originally written by Sir Thomas More)

     Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure?

   • 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety

     Unclutch his griping hand.

Synonyms

• (complain): bitch (vulgar), complain, whine, whinge

Derived terms

• begripe

Translations

Noun

gripe (plural gripes)

1. A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
2. (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
3. (obsolete) grasp; clutch; grip
   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:

     The young peasant […] disengaged himself from Manfred's gripe […].

   • 1833, Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal

     I started — I dropped the glass — the fluid flamed and glanced along the floor, while I felt Cornelius's gripe at my throat, as he shrieked aloud, "Wretch! you have destroyed the labour of my life!"

4. (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.

   the gripe of a sword

5. (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
6. (obsolete) Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
   • 1785, William Cowper, “The Garden”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. By William Cowper […] To which are Added, by the Same Author, An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and The History of John Gilpin, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-Yard, OCLC 221351486; republished as The Task. A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for Thomas Dobson, bookseller, in Second-street, second door above Chestnut-street, 1787, OCLC 23630717, page 87:

     'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wi?h to ?hine, the thir?t to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ?uch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, loo?e, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, va?t / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.

7. (chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
8. (nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
9. (nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
10. (nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
11. (obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.

Derived terms

• gripe water

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Greip, Griep

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1853. From French grippe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???ip?]

Noun

gripe m or f (plural gripes)

1. (pathology) flu, influenza

   Synonyms: gripallada, gripalleira, gripaxe

Derived terms

• gripallada
• gripalleira
• gripar
• gripaxe
• gripo
• gripio

References

• “gripe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “gripe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “gripe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Verb

gripe

1. Alternative form of gripen

Etymology 2

From Old English gripe, from Proto-Germanic *gripiz.

Alternative forms

• grippe, grype, grepe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rip(?)/, /??re?p(?)/

Noun

gripe (plural grippes or gripen)

2. Gripping, taking, or grabbing; taking with one's hand.
3. (rare) A small group or collection of things.
4. (rare) An assailing; an offensive strike.

Descendants

• English: grip
• Scots: grip, grup

References

• “grip(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-22.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old French gripe, from Latin gryps, gr?phus, from Ancient Greek ????? (gr??ps).

Alternative forms

• grippe, grype, gryyp, grijp, grip, gryp

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rip(?)/, /??ri?p(?)/

Noun

gripe (plural gripes)

2. A griffin (mythological beast; also in heraldry).
3. A vulture (compare modern English griffon vulture).

Descendants

• English: grip (obsolete)

References

• “gr??p(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-22.

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gripa, which derives from Proto-Germanic *gr?pan?.

Verb

gripe

1. (Mooring) to grab, seize

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse grípa (“to grab”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?pan?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?reyb- (“to grasp, grab”). Cognate with Danish gribe, Swedish gripa, Icelandic grípa, English gripe, Dutch grijpen, German greifen.

Verb

gripe (imperative grip, present tense griper, simple past grep or greip, past participle grepet, present participle gripende)

1. to grab, grasp, grip
2. to seize (grab, capture).
3. to seize (take advantage of an opportunity).

Derived terms

Related terms

• grep

References

• “gripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²?ri?p?/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

gripe (present tense grip, past tense greip, past participle gripe, passive infinitive gripast, present participle gripande, imperative grip)

1. Alternative form of gripa

Derived terms

• gripe dagen
• gripe inn

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *gripiz. Cognate with Old High German grif- (German Griff), Old Norse gripr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ri.pe/

Noun

gripe m (nominative plural gripe or gripas)

1. grip, clutch, grasp

Declension

Descendants

• English: grip

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• gr?pe: IPA^(key): /??ri?.pe/
• gripe: IPA^(key): /??ri.pe/

Verb

gr?pe

1. inflection of gr?pan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Verb

gripe

1. inflection of gr?pan:
   1. second-person singular past indicative
   2. singular past subjunctive

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• grippe (obsolete)

Noun

gripe f (plural gripes)

1. The flu, influenza.

Verb

gripe

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of gripar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of gripar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of gripar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of gripar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ripe]

Noun

gripe f pl

1. indefinite plural of grip?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of grip?

Spanish

Alternative forms

• gripa (Colombia, Mexico)

Etymology

Borrowed from French grippe, from gripper (“to seize”), of Germanic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ipe/, [???i.pe]

Noun

gripe f (plural gripes)

1. (medicine) flu, influenza

   Synonym: influenza

   Tengo la gripe / Tengo gripe

   I have (the) flu.

Derived terms

• antigripal
• agriparse
• gripe aviar
• gripe porcina

Anagrams

• pigre

Further reading

• “gripe” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gr?pa, from Proto-Germanic *gr?pan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rip?/

Verb

gripe

1. to grab, to grasp

Inflection

Derived terms

• begripe

Further reading

• “gripe (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Alternative forms

• fault-finding

Etymology

fault +? finding

Noun

faultfinding (countable and uncountable, plural faultfindings)

1. Excessive or petty criticism

Translations

Adjective

faultfinding (comparative more faultfinding, superlative most faultfinding)

1. Tending to find fault

Anagrams

• finding fault