To grumble. Grouty. Discontented.
1836. Been quite “grouty” all vacation, “black as Erebus.”—J. R. Lowell, ‘Letters’ (1894), i. 11. (N.E.D.)
1848.
| Ez long ’z the people git their rattle, | |
| Wut is there fer ’m to grout about? | |
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ No. 7. |
1850. “Don’t grin at me!” Silver added, very groutily.—S. Judd, ‘Richard Edney,’ p. 57.
1856. It will furnish even the most sober and “grouty” of us, mirth enough to prove an antidote to all the sorrow we may be feeling.—Yale Lit. Mag., xxi. 234 (April).
