Definition of grouch noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

grouch

noun

/ɡraʊtʃ/

(informal)

a person who complains a lot

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a complaint about something unimportant

Word Originlate 19th cent.: variant of obsolete grutch, from Old French grouchier ‘to grumble, murmur’, of unknown origin. Compare with grudge.

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