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gripeful en · ADJ

Etymology

From gripe + -ful.

Meanings

1. Disposed to gripe; gripey.
   • I don't know if any microbes and other germs have the ability to bite or sting, they are certainly included in this "gripeful” critique. 2018, Ben Raiche, People Like Us:
   • Our imp, with gripeful longing, sought The nearest beer-saloon, A dozen brimming schooners bought And stowed in his "galleon;" 1885, Scott R. Sherwood, The Lays of a Bohemian: Being Some of the Metrical Conceits, page 151:
   • It has been my good or my bad fortune, take it as you will, to watch the fabrication of "fiz," in certain parts of the Palatinate, and I have been specially privileged to see the most gripeful of all gripy wines that I have ever attempted to drink, the famous Silesian Grüneberger, turned indifferently into Duc de Montebello or Heidsick Monopole, or anyone's Carte Blanche or Carte Noire. 1895, Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss, Reminiscences of an Old Bohemian, page 118:
   • His attitude changed. He was less gripeful and more grateful. 1959, The Walther League Messenger - Volume 68, page 28:

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