grouch informal

Doctors can do more for us than ever before, but we grouch.

I'll lower you back down so you can grouch and complain when they come to feed us.

All of which I usually hate, grouch that I am, but not here.

I'm the first to grouch and crank about spam above and, more usually, below the line.

Grundy was glad not to have to stay awake, but felt obliged to grouch about it anyway.

What's there to grouch about here?

When Old Ben came thumping down the stairs to grouch his way in for breakfast, he stopped and sniffed the air.

"You don't have to grouch at me."

"You can grouch about how the old neighborhood has changed," Mr. Ipcar said.

Many network execs grouch that the Nielsens aren't reliable .

Don't grouch out yet.

The limited beer selection needs work; the only other thing to grouch about was the verbal recital (instead of a printed list) of specials.

Grouse is akin to grouch, which is derived from grudge, rooted in the Old French groucier, "to envy, resent."

"Don't grouch," Rashid chided.

Bug continued, "I know I'm sort of a nerd and I don't dress nicely and I grouch out at times, but I still want to be me.

But he said it's not easy being a young grouch.

"Or the grouch you had against me over your brother?"

"I mean, sometimes it's a good thing for an old grouch like me to go off and get it out of his system."

"It just means he went to the trouble to tell the world he's not a grouch."

The drunk was one of the few grouches she met along the way.

I wouldn't want to work for the old grouch either.

"Anybody tell you what a grouch you're getting to be?"

Being responsible for others makes one conservative and a bit of a grouch.

Avery said, the kind of grouch in his voice that they had become used to.

Grouch released the kid, who fell back against the wall.

"She usually has sort of a grouch on me," laughed George.

I was one of the worst grouches who ever walked down Broadway.

Games might make you less of an old grouch.

Mulch realized that his career as the Grouch was over.

Kind of a grouch and doesn't want to be disturbed.

Maybe that's why he's being such a grouch: separation anxiety.

"He's gone around all winter with a grouch and a face a mile long.

While not a grouch, he served the same role in plots as Oscar.

Back home, one such grouch had ample reason to be grouchy.

Grown up, Holden can be one heck of a grouch.

Hey, Peter, you ever know your old man was such a grouch?"

As the convicts would say, it had a "grouch" against the world.

When they went away, they said he was the worst grouch they'd ever met.

My period always made me grouch, and horny, but the latter would have to wait.