GRUDGE

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Grudge

verb

Third-person singular simple present: grudges

Indicative past, past participle: grudged

Present participle: grudging.

Etymology: from old French groucher, groucier (= to murmur, grumble), which was of unknown origin. Other English vocables etymologically linked to this verb are grouch (verb, noun) and grutch (archaic verb).

Intransitive use:

Literally: to murmur or grumble; complain; to be discontented.

Obsolete acceptation

It was construed with the prepositions against, with, at, of.

The first revelation had moved a great number of the king's subjects, […], to grudge against the said marriage before it was concluded and perfected.

James Anthony Froude (History of England...)

"Come, come, never grudge so much at it, man,"

Walter Scott (Chronicles Of The Canongate)

Transitive uses:

1. (The subject is an animated being) to be loath or unwilling to give, grant, permit, concede or do (something).

Synonyms: to begrudge, grutch (archaic)

Equivalent periphrases in other idioms: épargner; donner, faire, permettre en grommelant, in French; dar, hacer, o permitir rezongando, in Spanish; dare, fare o permettere brontolando, in Italian.

With an income of forty thousand a year, you grudge three and sixpence.

Charles Dickens (Doctor Marigold)

Mr. Murray, I am perfectly sure, is too liberal to have grudged the expense.

Thomas de Quincey (The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater)

Nor was I the only person in the house to whom the worthy gentleman was uncivil. He ordered the fair Lischen hither and thither, made impertinent love to her, abused her soups, quarrelled with her omelettes, and grudged the money which was laid out for his maintenance; so that our hostess detested him as much as, I think, without vanity, she regarded me.

William Makepeace Thackeray (Barry Lyndon)

"Do you never do anything else but make shoes, sir?" said Seumas.

"We do not," replied the Leprecaun, "except when we want new clothes, and then we have to make them, but we grudge every minute spent making anything else except shoes, because that is the proper work for a Leprecaun.

James Stephens (The Crock of Gold)

[…] had recently become fastidious about his clothes and she did not grudge the dollars he spent on them.

Harold Bindloss (The Girl From Keller's)

It cost Casey ten dollars, but he didn't grudge that.

B. M. Bower (The Trail Of The White Mule)

I don't grudge money when I know you're in good society.

William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair)

I never grudged my labour, in hopes of having a boat to go off to sea at last.

Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe)

The duties on spirits and tobacco […] are paid without being grudged, because they are identified with the cost of the articles.

John Ramsay McCulloch (A Treatise on the principles…)

You never told me that they grudged your being with them.

John Strange Winter (A Born Soldier)

***The object of the verb may be an infinitive or a gerund:

In return for these Russian sons of Anak, Friedrich Wilhelm grudged not to send German smiths, millwrights, drill-sergeants, cannoneers, engineers, having plenty of them.

Thomas Carlyle (History of Friedrich… )

[…] did she mean that there was no need for him to have bacon every morning, either, and that she grudged having to cook it for him?

Katherine Mansfield (Collected Stories)

The Spa was, […], more hospitable, though I almost grudged to go under any roof whatever, on so beautiful an evening.

Katharine Sinclair (Hill and Valley)

This was Joshua Drummond, the only son, now eighteen years of age, though he looked scarcely more than sixteen. […] He was more self-indulgent, and, though he grudged spending money for others, was perfectly ready to spend as much as he could get hold of for himself.

Horatio Alger (Strong and Steady)

Marie’s fiance came from what was in those days thought a great distance, and neither grudged spending time nor money in visits to his betrothed.

The National Magazine, v. 11, edited by Abel Stevens and James Floy

The value of the contents of that studio must have been great, for James Magnus earned a great deal of money, and never grudged spending it upon what he called necessaries for his art.

Forester Fitz-David (Alice Littleton)

My mother was that indoory that she grudged having to go out and do her marketing.

George Bernard Shaw (Village Wooing)

I am a widow, and my boy in the Navy has cost me much. I grudged to lose the money.

Arthur Conan Doyle (A Study In Scarlet)

***It may be construed with the preposition to or with a dative, to denote the indirect object of the action of this verb:

[…] she don't grudge me the best of wine, or keep me cooling my heels in the counting-room as some folks does.

William Makepeace Thackeray (The Virginians)

The old lady grudged her even those rare visits.

William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair)

He was such a sharp landlord, that he could hardly find any but bankrupt tenants; and such a close farmer, as to grudge almost the seed to the ground.

William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair)

[…] to those prodigious intellectual feats, which were so easy to him, who would grudge his tribute of homage?

William Makepeace Thackeray (Roundabout Papers)

Sitting in this humour on a settle in the street at Bedford, he was pondering over his fearful state. The sun in heaven seemed to grudge its light to him.

James Anthony Froude (Bunyan)

I doubt not, Joseph, but you have had your joys, as you say, as well as your betters. May you have more and more, honest Joseph!—He that grudges a poor man joy, ought to have none himself.

Samuel Richardson (Clarissa)

[…] why should you, of all men, grudge me that belief?'

Charles Dickens (Little Dorrit)

[…] for the matter of living well, and spending one's money handsomely, and having one's comforts about one, why it's a thing of another nature, and I can say this for myself, and that is, I never grudged myself any thing in my life. I always made myself agreeable, and lived on the best.

Fanny Burney (Cecilia)

I grudged myself food and sleep while I was at it [the trade].

Robert Louis Stevenson – Lloyd Osbourne (The Wrecker)

I grudged myself the penny that bought the morsel of bread which, with a draught of water, supplied the dinner that else had cost a shilling.

Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany by Thomas Hood

Presents of wine, that were sent to her house, she grudged herself, and they remained untouched.

Elizabeth Burgess (Life and History of Betty Bolaine)

With this exaggerated idea of the smallness of their income, she felt it right to be strictly economical. She doled out the tea in starved tea-spoonfuls, grudged herself sugar.

Henry Wayland Chetwynd (Three Hundred a year)

Casey tried not to watch them eat, but in spite of himself he thought of a prospector whom he had rescued last summer after a five-day fast. These people ate more than the prospector had eaten, and their eyes followed greedily every mouthful which Casey took, as if they grudged him the food. Wherefore Casey did not take as many mouthfuls as he would have liked.

B. M. Bower (Casey Ryan)

She made him our guardian, and he was a miserly wretch who grudged us food to eat, and clothes to wear.

Charles Dickens (The Mystery of Edwin Drood)

Do you grudge me even gratitude, Miss Crawley?

William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair)

I had no need to scheme ignoble savings, or to grudge the doctor his fee.

William Makepeace Thackeray (The Virginians)

[…] an honour that I would grudge anybody but yourself.

John Arbuthnot (The History of John Bull)

"Think," answered the other, "how arrogantly she dealt with us, grudging us these trifling gifts out of all that store, […]!

Walter Horatio Pater (Marius the Epicurean)

2. To envy (an animated being).

Postdefinition: it is obsolete now, and its use was maybe the result of ambiguity. In the following quotation, for example, I can not decide whether the verb should be under this obsolete definition or the preceding one.

I fear Lady Maria was only too well pleased at the lad's successes, and did not grudge him his superiority over her brothers.

William Makepeace Thackeray (The Virginians)

And I grudged the dog his eloquence. I could hardly bear the thought that any man breathing should have the power which I had lost, of persuading this high-souled woman, though in my own favour.

Samuel Richardson (Clarissa)

I, from my heart, grudge him his phrensy, because it deprives him of that remorse, which, I hope, in his recovery, will never leave him.

Samuel Richardson (Clarissa)

Other vocables derived from grudge: grudge (noun), grudgeful, grudgefully, grudgement, grudgery, grudger, grudging, grudgingly, grudgingness, begrudged, begrudged, begrudgingly