gripe

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (informal) To complain; to whine.
2. (informal) To annoy or bother.
3. To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
4. (obsolete) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
5. To suffer griping pains.
6. (obsolete) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
7. To seize or grasp.

complain

grumble

mulligrubs

nit-pick

sharp pain

blubber out

tear from

Frekwensie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ɡɹaɪp/

From Middle English gripen, from Old English grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, grasp”). Cognate with West Frisian gripe, Low German griepen, Dutch grijpen, German greifen, Danish gribe, Swedish gripa. See also grip, grope.