gritch

gritch
 /grich/

   [MIT]

   1. n. A complaint (often caused by a {glitch}).

   2. vi. To complain. Often verb-doubled: "Gritch gritch".

   3. A synonym for {glitch} (as verb or noun).

   Interestingly, this word seems to have a separate history from
   {glitch}, with which it is often confused. Back in the early 1960s,
   when `glitch' was strictly a hardware-tech's term of art, the Burton
   House dorm at M.I.T. maintained a "Gritch Book", a blank volume, into
   which the residents hand-wrote complaints, suggestions, and
   witticisms. Previous years' volumes of this tradition were maintained,
   dating back to antiquity. The word "gritch" was described as a
   portmanteau of "gripe" and "bitch". Thus, sense 3 above is at least
   historically incorrect.
    

gritch

   /grich/ 1.  A complaint (often caused by a {glitch}).

   2. To complain.  Often verb-doubled: "Gritch gritch".

   3. A synonym for {glitch} (as verb or noun).

   (1995-01-31)