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/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.
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