Grotch

Quick meaning: Grotch is a verb meaning (dated, fandom slang) To annoy; to irritate.

Meaning

(dated, fandom slang) To annoy; to irritate.

More Meanings

1. (dated, fandom slang) To complain.

Example Sentences

The Seagates are,despite my constant grotching about commodity drives, not bad.

GROTCH (Grennell) Acutely irritate. Usually passive. Speer suggests that this useful word is a transitive form of grouch.

This might have been an amusing and ingenious piece of fantasy, but Palmer published it, and demanded that it be accepted, as fact. Fans, as might be expected, grotched most acutely at such a claim, seeing in it the revolting nadir of Palmerism; the completion of his shift from fictionalized science to profitable superstition in the name of commercial appeal to the boob element.

The problem is that, much as we may sympathise with those coming in and expecting different rules of discourse than obtain here, we are not obligated to change *our* ways to suit *them*, and people who don't perceive that fact fairly quickly (or fail to "get" it after the first time it's pointed out) and continue to grotch about how "You kids are playing wrong -- play right!" are Fair Game for sardonic replies.

Word Forms

• grotches
• grotching
• grotched

Synonyms for grotch

Depending on context, synonyms include annoy, complain.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include groin, guff, grutch, grunt, gizzing, girn.

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