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grouch

/grouch/US // graʊtʃ //UK // (ɡraʊtʃ) informal //

讨厌的人,讨厌鬼,抱怨的人,抱怨者

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to be sulky or morose; show discontent; complain, especially in an irritable way.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sulky, complaining, or morose person.
    • : a sulky, irritable, or morose mood.

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Examples

  • Things go well until Oscar the Grouch is diagnosed with a burst appendix and Romney discovers he is uninsured.

  • He pictured himself as an old grouch, soured on the world, and surely uncompanionable.

  • "Lumpy's got on the grouch that won't come off," grinned Big-foot.

  • One weazened grouch, Hank Burns, who had been a miner for forty years, tried to account for it.

  • Behind the back of Monsieur P—— they grouch; before his face they grovel.

  • No need to gloom or grouch or fret, no need to howl or whine; but may the right to voice a grief or own a pain be mine.