grucche
Middle English
    
    Etymology
    
See grudge.
Verb
    
grucche (third-person singular simple present grucches, present participle grucching, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle grucched)
- To murmur; to grumble.
-  1387, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Clerk's Tale, pages 351-4:- I seye this, be ye redy with good herte
 To al my lust, and that I frely may,
 As me best thynketh, do yow laughe or smerte,
 And nevere ye to grucche it nyght ne day,
 And eek whan I sey ye, ne sey nat nay,
 Neither by word, ne frownyng contenance?
 Swere this, and heere I swere oure alliance.
 
 
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References
    
- grucche in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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