Grouchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɡɹaʊt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -aʊtʃ

名詞

grouch (plural grouches)

1. A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor. [from the late 19th c]
   • 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, 'A Damsel in Distress', Herbert Jenkins, 1956, p 20

     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.

2. One who is grumpy or irritable. [from the early 20th c]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:complainer

   I don't feel like hanging around with that grouch.

派生語

• grouch bag
• morning grouch

動詞

grouch (third-person singular simple present grouches, present participle grouching, simple past and past participle grouched)

1. (intransitive) To be grumpy or irritable; to complain. [from the early 20th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:complain

   He spent all his time grouching about the problem instead of fixing it.

派生語

関連する語

• grouchy