[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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {glitch}]