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plural grouches
A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor. quotations examples
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.
1919, P. G. Wodehouse, 'A Damsel in Distress', Herbert Jenkins, 1956, p 20
One who is grumpy or irritable. examples
third-person singular simple present grouches, present participle grouching, simple past and past participle grouched
(intransitive) To be grumpy or irritable; to complain. examples