gripe
verb
[ ɡrʌɪp ]
• complain about something in a persistent, irritating way.
• "it's no use griping about your boss or your pay"
Similar:
complain,
grumble,
moan,
groan,
protest,
whine,
bleat,
mither,
twine,
grouse,
bellyache,
beef,
bitch,
grouch,
kick up a fuss,
knock,
whinge,
chunter,
create,
be on at someone,
kvetch,
• grasp tightly; clutch.
• "Hilyard griped his dagger"
• secure (a boat) with gripes.
• (of a ship) turn to face the wind despite the efforts of the helmsman.
gripe
noun
• a minor complaint.
• "my only gripe is the size of the page numbers"
Similar:
complaint,
grumble,
moan,
groan,
grievance,
objection,
protest,
whine,
cavil,
quibble,
niggle,
grouse,
beef,
bellyaching,
beefing,
bitching,
grouching,
whinge,
whingeing,
kvetch,
• gastric or intestinal pain; colic.
• "if your baby has gripe or is teething, we have the medication to help them"
• an act of grasping something tightly.
• "he seized me by the arms with a rude gripe"
• lashings securing a boat in its place on deck or in davits.
Origin:
Old English grīpan ‘grasp, clutch’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grijpen, German greifen ‘seize’, also to grip and grope; gripe (sense 1 of the verb), of US origin, dates from the 1930s.
