Lexicographical Neighbors of Grutching
Literary usage of Grutching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"grutching the English such a .... [A var. of earlier and dial, grutching, ...
least grutching Bless the Sovereign and his touching. ..."
2. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"After backbiting cometh grutching or ... for they comen by the rightful jugement
and ordinance of God. Somtime cometh grutching of avarice, ..."