gripe
Meanings
Plural: gripes
Noun
- informal terms for objecting
- "I have a gripe about the service here"
- A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
- A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
- Grasp; clutch; grip.
- That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
- A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
- Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
- Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
- Alternative form of grype.
Verb
- complain
- To complain; to whine.
- To annoy or bother.
- To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
- 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.
- To suffer griping pains.
- To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
- To seize or grasp.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 8
gripe is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordgripe is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 10
gripe is a valid Words With Friends word