An archaic or dialectal past tense form meaning to grudge, begrudge, or express resentment.
From Old English or Middle English "grudge" or "grutche," possibly influenced by Scottish or Northern English dialect, related to the verb grudge with variant spelling and pronunciation.
Grutch is a ghost of Middle English's greater spelling and pronunciation variety—before standardization, English had many variants of the same word, and some of these alternatives survived only in dialect or archaic texts.
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