different between grouch vs grotch

English

Etymology

From grutch. Noun form first attested in the 1890s, verb form in 1916.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?t?/
• Rhymes: -a?t?

Noun

grouch (plural grouches)

1. A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor. [from the late 19th c]
   • 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, 'A Damsel in Distress', Herbert Jenkins, 1956, p 20

     But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch.

2. One who is grumpy or irritable. [from the early 20th c]
   • I don't feel like hanging around with that grouch.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:complainer

Translations

Verb

grouch (third-person singular simple present grouches, present participle grouching, simple past and past participle grouched)

1. (intransitive) To be grumpy or irritable; to complain. [from the early 20th c]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:complain

Related terms

• grouchy

English

Etymology

Coined by Dean A. Grennell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????t?/
• enPR: gräch
• Rhymes: -?t?

Verb

grotch (third-person singular simple present grotches, present participle grotching, simple past and past participle grotched)

1. (dated, fandom slang) To annoy; to irritate.
2. (dated, fandom slang) To complain.
   • The Seagates are,despite my constant grotching about commodity drives, not bad.

   • The problem is that, much as we may sympathise with those coming in and expecting different rules of discourse than obtain here, we are not obligated to change *our* ways to suit *them*, and people who don't perceive that fact fairly quickly (or fail to "get" it after the first time it's pointed out) and continue to grotch about how "You kids are playing wrong -- play right!" are Fair Game for sardonic replies.

Synonyms

• (annoy): see Thesaurus:annoy
• (complain): see Thesaurus:complain

Derived terms

• grotchy

References