grudge

nounverbcommon in dialogue

//ɡɹʌd͡ʒ//

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

noun

1
Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment.
to have, hold, owe or bear a grudge against someone
Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre,
I have never mentioned it to a human creature; I have kept my grudge to myself. I daresay I have been wicked, but my grudge has grown old with me.
It is towards Saduko that he bears a grudge, for you know, my father, one should never pull a drowning man out of the stream — which is what Saduko did, for had it not been for his treachery, Cetewayo would have sunk beneath the water of Death — especially if it is only to spite a woman who hates him.

Etymology

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

1
To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
Wee shall finde our whole life so necessarily ioyned with sorrow, that we ought rather delight (and take pleasure) in Gods louing chastisements, and admonitions, then any way murmure and grudge at our crosses, or tribulations :
If we of the central land were to grudge you what is beneficial, and not to compassionate your wants, then wherewithal could you foreigners manage to exist?
Of course, his interest in the war and in the regiment was unbounded; he did not take to drill with especial readiness, but he was insatiable of it, and grudged every moment of relaxation.
Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.
2
obsoleteTo grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
And the pharises, and scribes grudged sainge: He receaveth to his company synners [...].
3
obsoleteTo hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
Perish they / That grudge one thought against your majesty!

Forms

plural: grudges
past tense: grudged
past participle: grudged
present participle: grudging
third person singular: grudges

growth · An increase in size, number, value, or strength.grub · An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its…Gruber · A surname.

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

gruesome · Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.grumbling · complaining grumpy · Dissatisfied and irritable.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.