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   gripe

   /ɡrīp/

   verb

   • 1. complain about something in a persistent, irritating way: informal "“Holidays don't make any difference to Simon,” Pat griped"
   • 2. grasp tightly; clutch: archaic "Hilyard griped his dagger"
   • 3. secure (a boat) with gripes.
   • 4. (of a ship) turn to face the wind in spite of the helm.

   noun

   • 1. a minor complaint: informal "his biggest gripe is that he has lost his sense of privacy"
   • 2. gastric or intestinal pain; colic: "if your baby has gripe or is teething, we have the medication to help them"
   • 3. an act of grasping something tightly: archaic "he seized me by the arms with a rude gripe"
   • 4. lashings securing a boat in its place on deck or in davits.

   Word Origin Old Englishgrīpan ‘grasp, clutch’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grijpen, German greifen ‘seize’, also to grip and grope; gripe (sense 1 of the verb), of US origin, dates from the 1930s.

   Derivatives

   • 1. griper noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • G

     2

   • R

     1

   • I

     1

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

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