grudge

== 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, probably ultimately imitative. 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): /ɡɹʌd͡ʒ/ Rhymes: -ʌdʒ === Noun === grudge (plural grudges) (countable) Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment. 1607, Barnabe Barnes, THE DIVILS CHARTER: A TRAGÆDIE Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the ſixt, 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 ſhall haue two ſteele bullets ſtrongly charg’d ==== Synonyms ==== rancor spite resentment ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== grudge match ==== Translations ==== === Verb === grudge (third-person singular simple present grudges, present participle grudging, simple past and past participle grudged) 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 : (obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. [15th–18th c.] (obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== === Anagrams === Dugger, Gudger, rugged, gurged, drugge