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Definition of grouch in English: grouchnoun ɡraʊtʃɡraʊtʃ 1A habitually grumpy person. 坏脾气的人，性情暴躁的人 rock's foremost poet and ill-mannered grouch 最重要的摇滚诗人，也是一个行为粗鲁、脾气暴躁的人。 Example sentencesExamples - Some people talk about depressive realism, the idea that depressed people see reality better, but it occurred to me that maybe any success I'd had in life was in spite of being a grouch, not because of being a grouch, so I resolved to change.
- At the risk of sounding a tad Baden Powell, the combination of fresh air, freedom and new friends on tap transformed the children from hooded grouches into apple-cheeked moppets.
- Sorry, I'm a grouch, but can we do this tomorrow?
- The usage grouches are just flat wrong about the history and structure of English.
- And if I can stop whining, you can stop being such a grouch.
- It merely brands you as the department's top grumbler, grouch and complainer.
- You have the perfect opportunity to turn the grouch in your life into the equivalent of Santa's little helper this weekend.
- This happens to me every year, this discontented meteorological limbo, and I know I'm a grouch until the first real cold snap arrives.
- Cheer up, Jason, you look like a little grouch.
- It wouldn't be so funny to hear just any ordinary grouch complaining about his wife's idiosyncrasies to a starving 6-year-old.
- But when he's on form, he's as brilliant as former partner John - and less of a grouch.
- I might have been guilty of this myself when younger, but that's not gonna stop me from being an old grouch about it now.
- It is not that I want to come over as an old grouch or crank but if there ever is a serious accident all comment on the issue would receive the answer ‘I told you so’.
- To a grouch, changes in a business environment are nothing more than bubbles.
- This is why I like him; he's an entertaining grouch.
- Meanwhile, several foreign crew members who were unaccustomed to the punishing heat and humidity turned into sluggish grouches.
- You're a cynical grouch, says my colleague in a huff, as she fails to win me over with her ‘romantic ‘ideals.
- Yeah - I know - don't be a grouch, don't whine, it's part of living in New York City.
- Consequently I now have a reputation as a sourpuss and a grouch.
- To be fair though I've only ever had a handful of complaints about the language in three years so the grouches keep it to themselves or just never come back.
Synonyms grumbler, complainer, moaner, discontent, malcontent, fault-finder, carper grumpy person, miserable person, moper, pessimist, prophet of doom informal grump, sourpuss, crosspatch, bear with a sore head, grouser, whinger, wet blanket, party pooper, doom merchant British informal griper, misery North American informal sorehead, kvetcher - 1.1 A trivial complaint.
my only real grouch was that the children's chorus was less easy on the ear 我惟一真正的不满是孩子们的合唱部分远远没有那么动听。 Example sentencesExamples - Indeed, the main grouch with him was not his decision to come out, but his decision to first deny it.
- Of course, no car is perfect, and I did have a couple of grouches with this one.
Synonyms complaint, complaining, grouse, grousing, moan, moaning, moans and groans, grouching, grumble, whining, carping, muttering, murmur, murmuring, whispering - 1.2 A sulky or discontented mood.
he's in a thundering grouch 他正大发雷霆。
verb ɡraʊtʃɡraʊtʃ [no object]Voice one's discontent ill-temperedly; grumble. 发脾气；发牢骚 there's not a lot to grouch about 没有太多可抱怨的。 Example sentencesExamples - I can so understand that, and I wouldn't want to spoil any of the fun of that by participating in a grouchy thread, but I don't really think anyone's grouching.
- The anti-Valentine zealots are not just grouching about a harmless festivity.
- Instead of closing the barn door after the horses have galloped to freedom and grouching about the loss of your property… why not open the barn door and let them bound free?
- And the next day was an authentic Boxing Day, too: the kids fighting over toys and eating cold leftovers; the adults grouching at them through the half-closed eyes of a hangover.
- You may complain, they say; you may grouch about globalisation, bellyache about environmental destruction, grizzle about consumer society.
- ‘Sorry for not leaping for joy,’ he grouched in an annoyed fashion.
- Last time we met he was in spectacular sore head mode, grouching at a line of questioning he didn't like and being airily evasive if he felt we were getting too deep.
- Even if we're headed in that direction and the progress is irritatingly sluggish, one shouldn't be grouching about it.
- And the pressure is on to stop grouching and help boost a sagging Christmas retail season.
- Cultural exiles in a world they had created, disgruntled Hawks spent their most triumphant decade not basking in their new uncontested power but grouching about how America had gone ‘soft,’ become feminized.
- David had done a bit of grouching himself the first time he'd met Harry.
- Before you roll your eyes, before you grouch, before you yell at me, wait.
Synonyms grumble, complain, grouse, moan, whine, bleat, carp, cavil, grieve, sigh informal whinge, beef, bellyache, bitch, sound off, kick up a fuss, kick up a stink British informal gripe, grizzle, chunter, create North American informal kvetch South African informal chirp
OriginLate 19th century: variant of obsolete grutch, from Old French grouchier 'to grumble, murmur', of unknown origin. Compare with grudge. The words grouch and grudge (Late Middle English) are variants of obsolete grutch, from Old French grouchier ‘to grumble, murmur’, of unknown origin. Early 19th-century grouse may be related.
Rhymesavouch, couch, crouch, debouch, ouch, pouch, slouch, vouch Definition of grouch in US English: grouchnounɡrouCHɡraʊtʃ 1A habitually grumpy person. 坏脾气的人，性情暴躁的人 rock's foremost poet and ill-mannered grouch 最重要的摇滚诗人，也是一个行为粗鲁、脾气暴躁的人。 Example sentencesExamples - It is not that I want to come over as an old grouch or crank but if there ever is a serious accident all comment on the issue would receive the answer ‘I told you so’.
- Consequently I now have a reputation as a sourpuss and a grouch.
- You're a cynical grouch, says my colleague in a huff, as she fails to win me over with her ‘romantic ‘ideals.
- At the risk of sounding a tad Baden Powell, the combination of fresh air, freedom and new friends on tap transformed the children from hooded grouches into apple-cheeked moppets.
- You have the perfect opportunity to turn the grouch in your life into the equivalent of Santa's little helper this weekend.
- Some people talk about depressive realism, the idea that depressed people see reality better, but it occurred to me that maybe any success I'd had in life was in spite of being a grouch, not because of being a grouch, so I resolved to change.
- To a grouch, changes in a business environment are nothing more than bubbles.
- This is why I like him; he's an entertaining grouch.
- Sorry, I'm a grouch, but can we do this tomorrow?
- The usage grouches are just flat wrong about the history and structure of English.
- Meanwhile, several foreign crew members who were unaccustomed to the punishing heat and humidity turned into sluggish grouches.
- Cheer up, Jason, you look like a little grouch.
- I might have been guilty of this myself when younger, but that's not gonna stop me from being an old grouch about it now.
- This happens to me every year, this discontented meteorological limbo, and I know I'm a grouch until the first real cold snap arrives.
- To be fair though I've only ever had a handful of complaints about the language in three years so the grouches keep it to themselves or just never come back.
- It merely brands you as the department's top grumbler, grouch and complainer.
- Yeah - I know - don't be a grouch, don't whine, it's part of living in New York City.
- But when he's on form, he's as brilliant as former partner John - and less of a grouch.
- It wouldn't be so funny to hear just any ordinary grouch complaining about his wife's idiosyncrasies to a starving 6-year-old.
- And if I can stop whining, you can stop being such a grouch.
Synonyms grumbler, complainer, moaner, discontent, malcontent, fault-finder, carper - 1.1 A complaint or grumble.
抱怨，牢骚 my only real grouch was that the children's chorus was far less easy on the ear 我惟一真正的不满是孩子们的合唱部分远远没有那么动听。 Example sentencesExamples - Indeed, the main grouch with him was not his decision to come out, but his decision to first deny it.
- Of course, no car is perfect, and I did have a couple of grouches with this one.
Synonyms complaint, complaining, grouse, grousing, moan, moaning, moans and groans, grouching, grumble, whining, carping, muttering, murmur, murmuring, whispering - 1.2 A fit of grumbling or sulking.
脾气的发作；生气 he's in a thundering grouch 他正大发雷霆。
verbɡrouCHɡraʊtʃ [no object]Voice one's discontent in an ill-tempered manner; grumble. 发脾气；发牢骚 there's not a lot to grouch about 没有太多可抱怨的。 Example sentencesExamples - Before you roll your eyes, before you grouch, before you yell at me, wait.
- The anti-Valentine zealots are not just grouching about a harmless festivity.
- Instead of closing the barn door after the horses have galloped to freedom and grouching about the loss of your property… why not open the barn door and let them bound free?
- Cultural exiles in a world they had created, disgruntled Hawks spent their most triumphant decade not basking in their new uncontested power but grouching about how America had gone ‘soft,’ become feminized.
- David had done a bit of grouching himself the first time he'd met Harry.
- You may complain, they say; you may grouch about globalisation, bellyache about environmental destruction, grizzle about consumer society.
- Even if we're headed in that direction and the progress is irritatingly sluggish, one shouldn't be grouching about it.
- And the next day was an authentic Boxing Day, too: the kids fighting over toys and eating cold leftovers; the adults grouching at them through the half-closed eyes of a hangover.
- And the pressure is on to stop grouching and help boost a sagging Christmas retail season.
- I can so understand that, and I wouldn't want to spoil any of the fun of that by participating in a grouchy thread, but I don't really think anyone's grouching.
- ‘Sorry for not leaping for joy,’ he grouched in an annoyed fashion.
- Last time we met he was in spectacular sore head mode, grouching at a line of questioning he didn't like and being airily evasive if he felt we were getting too deep.
Synonyms grumble, complain, grouse, moan, whine, bleat, carp, cavil, grieve, sigh
OriginLate 19th century: variant of obsolete grutch, from Old French grouchier ‘to grumble, murmur’, of unknown origin. Compare with grudge. |