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Grouch vs Grotch - What's the difference?

grouch | grotch |

As verbs the difference between grouch and grotch

is that grouch is to be grumpy or irritable; to complain while grotch is to annoy; to irritate.

As a noun grouch

is a complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.

grouch

English

Noun

(grouches)
  • A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
  • *1919 , , Herbert Jenkins, 1956, p 20
    • But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch .
  • One who is grumpy or irritable.
  • *I don't feel like hanging around with that grouch .

    • Verb

  • To be grumpy or irritable; to complain.
    • He spent all his time grouching about the problem instead of fixing it.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * grouchy

    grotch

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (dated, fandom slang) To annoy; to irritate.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1959 , first = Richard "Dick" Harris , last = Eney , title = Fancyclopedia II , section = Grotch , url = http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/golf.html , passage = GROTCH (Grennell) Acutely irritate. Usually passive. Speer suggests that this useful word is a transitive form of grouch. }}
  • (dated, fandom slang) To complain.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1959 , first = Richard "Dick" Harris , last = Eney , title = Fancyclopedia II , section = RICHARD S(harpe) SHAVER , url = http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/sierra.html , passage = 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. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1962 , date = June , first = Edmund R. , last = Meskys , authorlink = , magazine = Cry of the Nameless , title = Cry of the Readers , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/Cry_of_the_Nameless/Cry161-19.html , issue = 161 , page = (19–36) , passage = Oh yeah, Buz, so you were just a wee bit off on your Hugo nomination predictions last time around. I see where SFTimes did not make it and Cry did. Well, sorry to disappoint you, but if anyone gets my vote at all, it will be Warhoon. (I'm a bit grotched about their policy of your having to use the official ballot. I'm a completist fanatic second only to Walter A. Coslet, and I haven't decided yet whether or not I'll part with my copy of the ballot in order to vote.) }}
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1989 , monthday = October 06 , author = Alex Pournelle , email = , title = Re^2: Is an(y) Apple Hard Disk better than any others? , id = 1989Oct6.080327.16026@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us , group = comp.sys.mac , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.mac/NcQqbex42_E/1kVsXygpVuMJ }}
    The Seagates are,despite my constant grotching about commodity drives, not bad.
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 2000 , monthday = August 08 , author = Mike Weber , email = , title = Re: Being nice to outsiders , id = 398fcef2.6598134@news.mindspring.com , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/N3smE5h98ZU/7mFH4vlaQzEJ }}
    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.

    Synonyms

    * (annoy) see * (complain) see

    References