Synonyms of the word

grouch

• n. A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
• n. One who is grumpy or irritable.
• v. (intransitive) To be grumpy or irritable; to complain.

churl

• n. A rustic; a countryman or labourer; a free peasant (as opposed to a serf).
• n. A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
• n. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
• n. (Theodism) a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.

complain

• v. (intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
• v. (intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
• v. To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

crank

• adj. (slang) strange, weird, odd.
• adj. sick; unwell; infirm.
• adj. (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
• adj. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
• n. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft…
• n. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
• n. (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
• n. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
• n. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
• n. (informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave…
• n. (informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
• n. (US, slang) methamphetamine.
• n. (rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
• n. (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
• n. (slang) penis.
• v. (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To turn a crank.
• v. (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
• v. (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
• v. (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
• v. (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

crosspatch

• n. A grumpy, bad-tempered or irascible person.

grumble

• n. (onomatopoeia) A low thundering, rumbling or growling sound.
• n. The sound made by a hungry stomach.
• n. A complaint.
• v. (intransitive) To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To complain; to murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low…
• v. (transitive) To utter in a grumbling fashion.

grump

• n. (informal) A habitually grumpy or complaining person.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To complain.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To be grumpy.

kick

• v. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
• v. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
• v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
• v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
• v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
• v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
• v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
• v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from…
• n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
• n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
• n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
• n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…
• n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
• n. (uncountable and countable) piquancy.
• n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
• n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
• n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
• n. a recoil of a gun.
• n. (informal) pocket.
• n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
• v. To die.

kvetch

• v. To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
• n. Person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
• n. An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.

plain

• adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
• adj. Simple.
• adj. Obvious.
• adj. Open.
• adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
• adv. (colloquial) Simply.
• n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
• n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
• n. A battlefield.
• n. (obsolete) A plane.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

quetch

• v. Alternative form of quitch.

scold

• n. A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
• v. To rebuke.