different between grudge vs grudging

English

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, 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Noun

grudge (plural grudges)

1. (countable) Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to a past misdeed or mistreatment.
   • 1607, Barnabe Barnes, THE DIVILS CHARTER: A TRAGÆDIE Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the ?ixt, ACTVS. 5, SCÆ. 1:

     Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it

     I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre,

     He ?hall haue two ?teele bullets ?trongly charg’d

   • 2001, H. Rider Haggard, All Adventure: Child of Storm/a Tale of Three Lions, Essential Library (xLibris), page 274:

     It is towards Saduko that he bears a grudge, for you know, my father, one should never pull a drowning man out of the stream — which is what Saduko did, for had it not been for his treachery, Cetewayo would have sunk beneath the water of Death — especially if it is only to spite a woman who hates him.

Derived terms

• hold a grudge
• have a grudge
• bear a grudge

Related terms

• rancor
• spite
• grudge fuck
• grudge match
• resentment

Translations

Verb

grudge (third-person singular simple present grudges, present participle grudging, simple past and past participle grudged)

1. To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). [from 16th c.]
   • 1608, Henrie Gosson, The Woefull and Lamentable wast and spoile done by a suddaine Fire in S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke, on Munday the tenth of Aprill. 1608., reprinted by F. Pawsey, Old Butter Market, Ipswich, 1845, page 6:

     Wee shall finde our whole life so necessarily ioyned with sorrow, that we ought rather delight (and take pleasure) in Gods louing chastisements, and admonitions, then any way murmure and grudge at our crosses, or tribulations :

   • 1841, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register, Rivingtons, page 430:

     If we of the central land were to grudge you what is beneficial, and not to compassionate your wants, then wherewithal could you foreigners manage to exist?

   • 1869, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Fields, Osgood, & Co., p. 62 [1]:

     Of course, his interest in the war and in the regiment was unbounded; he did not take to drill with especial readiness, but he was insatiable of it, and grudged every moment of relaxation.

   • 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, Viking Press, 1953, chapter 3:

     I've never seen such people for borrowing and lending; there was dough changing hands in all directions, and nobody grudged anyone.

2. (obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. [15th-18th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XV:

     And the pharises, and scribes grudged sainge: He receaveth to his company synners [...].

3. (obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
4. (obsolete) To feel compunction or grief.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Fisher to this entry?)

Derived terms

• begrudge
• grudgement
• grudgery
• grudgingly
• misgrudge

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Dugger, Gudger, gurged, rugged

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.d???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????.d?i?/

Adjective

grudging (comparative more grudging, superlative most grudging)

1. Unwilling or with reluctance.

   her grudging acceptance that her rival deserved the award

Derived terms

• grudgingly

Related terms

• grudge
• grudger

Translations

Verb

grudging

1. present participle of grudge

Noun

grudging (plural grudgings)

1. The state of bearing a grudge.

Anagrams

• drugging