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GRUDGE
Definition of GRUDGE
noun
Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
A variant of grutch (mid 15th-century, younger than begrudge), from Middle English grucchen (“to murmur, complain, feel envy, begrudge”), from Old French grouchier, groucier (“to murmur, grumble”), of Germanic origin, probably ultimately imitative. Akin to Middle High German grogezen (“to howl, wail”), German grocken (“to croak”). Compare also Old Norse krytja (“to murmur”), Old High German grunzen (“to grunt”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (827)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GRUDGE · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old Norse.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRUDGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 134, 1 October 2026.
Built from these letters
GRUDGE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEGGRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GRUDGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GRUDGE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 134 - and most players walked straight past it.
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