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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Grutchnoun

    Malice; ill-will.

    Etymology: from the verb.

    In it he melted leaden bullets,
    To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets;
    To whom he bore so fell a grutch,
    He ne’er gave quarter t’ any such. Hudibras, p. i.

  2. To Grutchverb

    To envy; to repine; to be discontented.

    Etymology: corrupted for the sake of rhyme from grudge.

    The poor at the enclosure doth grutch,
    Because of abuses that fall,
    Lest some men should have but too much,
    And some again nothing at all. Thomas Tusser, Husbandry.

    But what we’re born for we must bear,
    Our frail condition it is such,
    That what to all may happen here,
    If’t chance to me, I must not grutch. Ben Jonson.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Grutch

    see Grudge

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Grutch

    gruch, v.t. or v.i. (Spens.) to grudge.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of grutch in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of grutch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5


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