grouch

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aʊtʃ

Noun

grouch (plural grouches)

1. One who is grumpy or irritable.

   I don't feel like hanging around with that grouch.

Translations

one who is grumpy or irritable

• Dutch: mopperkont (nl)
• Finnish: yrmy (fi)

• French: grincheux (fr), grognon (fr)
• Galician: túzaro (gl) m
• Spanish: gruñón (es) m, gruñona (es) f

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.

   He spent all his time grouching about the problem instead of fixing it.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:complain

Related terms

• grouchy