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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>gritch</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="grind-crank.html" title="grind crank"/><link rel="next" href="grok.html" title="grok"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">gritch</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="grind-crank.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="grok.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="gritch"/><dt xmlns="" id="gritch"><b>gritch</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/grich/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [MIT] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> A complaint (often caused
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by a <a href="glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To complain. Often
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verb-doubled: “<span class="quote">Gritch gritch</span>”. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. A synonym for <a href="glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a> (as verb or
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noun).</p></dd><dd><p>Interestingly, this word seems to have a separate history from
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<a href="glitch.html"><i class="glossterm">glitch</i></a>, with which it is often confused. Back in
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the early 1960s, when ‘glitch’ was strictly a hardware-tech's
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term of art, the Burton House dorm at M.I.T. maintained a “<span class="quote">Gritch
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Book</span>”, a blank volume, into which the residents hand-wrote
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complaints, suggestions, and witticisms. Previous years' volumes of this
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tradition were maintained, dating back to antiquity. The word
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“<span class="quote">gritch</span>” was described as a portmanteau of
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“<span class="quote">gripe</span>” and “<span class="quote">bitch</span>”. Thus, sense 3 above is at
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least historically incorrect.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="grind-crank.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="grok.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">grind crank </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> grok</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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