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grudge.

Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment.

6 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɡɹʌd͡ʒ/

  1. Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment.

    countable
    to have, hold, owe or bear a grudge against someone
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Germanicder. Old French grouchier, groucierder. Middle English grucchen English grutchder. English grudge 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”).

verb/ɡɹʌd͡ʒ/

  1. To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).

  2. To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.

    obsolete

  3. To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Germanicder. Old French grouchier, groucierder. Middle English grucchen English grutchder. English grudge 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”).

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