Grutch

Origin

From Old French grouchier "to grumble", in Middle English from c. 1200 (as grucchen).

As a noun from c. 1400. See also grudge, grouch, grouse.

Full definition of grutch

Verb

1. to murmur, complain
• 1891 "But I am a man who may grutch and grumble, but when I have set my face to do a thing I will not turn my back upon it until it be done." Arthur Conan Doyle,

Noun

1. a complaint
• 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1,In it he melted lead for bullets,
  To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets; To whom he bore so fell a grutch, He ne'er gave quarter t' any such.