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5-letter words (1 found)

GRIPE,

4-letter words (5 found)

GRIP,PERI,PIER,PRIG,RIPE,

3-letter words (16 found)

ERG,GER,GIE,GIP,IRE,PEG,PER,PIE,PIG,PIR,PRE,REG,REI,REP,RIG,RIP,

2-letter words (5 found)

ER,GI,PE,PI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 28 words from gripe according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of gripe

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Definitions and meaning of gripe

gripe

Etymology 1

From Middle English gripen, from Old English grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, grasp”). Cognate with West Frisian gripe, Low German griepen, Dutch grijpen, German greifen, Danish gribe, Swedish gripa. See also grip, grope.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹaɪp/
  • Rhymes: -aɪp

Verb

gripe (third-person singular simple present gripes, present participle griping, simple past griped or (obsolete) grope, past participle griped or (obsolete) gripen)

  1. (intransitive, informal) To complain; to whine.
  2. (transitive, informal) To annoy or bother.
    What's griping you?
  3. (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
  5. (intransitive, now archaic except in passive) To suffer griping pains.
  6. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
  7. (archaic, transitive) To seize or grasp.
Synonyms
  • (complain): bitch (vulgar), complain, whine, whinge
Derived terms
  • begripe
Translations

Noun

gripe (plural gripes)

  1. A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
  2. (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
  3. (obsolete) Grasp; clutch; grip.
  4. (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
    the gripe of a sword
  5. (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
  6. (obsolete) Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
    • 1785, William Cowper, “The Garden”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. By William Cowper […] To which are Added, by the Same Author, An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and The History of John Gilpin, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-Yard, OCLC 221351486; republished as The Task. A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for Thomas Dobson, bookseller, in Second-street, second door above Chestnut-street, 1787, OCLC 23630717, page 87:
      'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.
  7. (chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
  8. (nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
  9. (nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
  10. (nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
Derived terms
  • gripe water
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

gripe (plural gripes)

  1. Alternative form of grype

References

Anagrams

  • Greip, Griep

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1853. From French grippe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡɾipɪ]

Noun

gripe m or f (plural gripes)

  1. (pathology) flu, influenza
    Synonyms: gripallada, gripalleira, gripaxe

Derived terms

  • gripallada
  • gripalleira
  • gripar
  • gripaxe
  • gripo
  • gripio

References

  • “gripe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “gripe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “gripe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English gripe, from Proto-West Germanic *gripi, from Proto-Germanic *gripiz.

Alternative forms

  • grepe, grippe, grype

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrip(ə)/, /ˈɡreːp(ə)/

Noun

gripe (plural grippes or gripen)

  1. Gripping or grabbing; taking with the hand.
  2. (rare) A small group or collection of things.
  3. (rare) An assault or attack.
  4. (rare) A twinge; a sharp pain.
Related terms
  • gripel
Descendants
  • English: grip
    • → Dutch: grip
  • Scots: grip, grup
  • Yola: grip
References
  • “grip(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-22.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French gripe, from Latin gryps, grȳphus, from Ancient Greek γρῡ́ψ (grū́ps).

Alternative forms

  • grijp, grip, grippe, gryp, grype, gryyp

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrip(ə)/, /ˈɡriːp(ə)/

Noun

gripe (plural gripes)

  1. A griffin (mythological beast; also in heraldry).
  2. A vulture (compare modern English griffon vulture).
Descendants
  • English: grip (obsolete)
References
  • “grī̆p(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-22.

Etymology 3

Verb

gripe

  1. Alternative form of gripen

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gripa, which derives from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną.

Verb

gripe

  1. (Mooring) to grab, seize

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish gribe (“to grab”), from Old Norse grípa (“to grab”), from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grasp, grab”). Cognate with Danish gribe, Swedish gripa, Icelandic grípa, English gripe, Dutch grijpen, German greifen.

Verb

gripe (imperative grip, present tense griper, simple past grep or greip, past participle grepet, present participle gripende)

  1. to grab, grasp, grip
  2. to seize (grab, capture).
  3. to seize (take advantage of an opportunity).

Derived terms

Related terms

  • grep

References

  • “gripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “gripe” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ɡriːpə/

Verb

gripe (present tense grip, past tense greip, past participle gripe, passive infinitive gripast, present participle gripande, imperative grip)

  1. Alternative form of gripa

Derived terms

  • gripe dagen
  • gripe inn

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *gripiz. Cognate with Old High German grif- (German Griff), Old Norse gripr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡri.pe/

Noun

gripe m (nominative plural gripe or gripas)

  1. grip, clutch, grasp
Declension
Descendants
  • Middle English: gripe, grepe, grippe, grype
    • English: grip
      • → Dutch: grip
    • Scots: grip, grup
    • Yola: grip

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • grīpe: IPA(key): /ˈɡriː.pe/
  • gripe: IPA(key): /ˈɡri.pe/

Verb

grīpe

  1. inflection of grīpan:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. singular present subjunctive

Verb

gripe

  1. inflection of grīpan:
    1. second-person singular past indicative
    2. singular past subjunctive

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From French grippe.

Alternative forms

  • grippe (obsolete)

Noun

gripe f (plural gripes)

  1. the flu, influenza

Etymology 2

Verb

gripe

  1. inflection of gripar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡripe]

Noun

gripe f pl

  1. inflection of gripă:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɾipe/ [ˈɡɾi.pe]
  • Rhymes: -ipe
  • Syllabification: gri‧pe

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French grippe, from gripper (“to seize”), of Germanic origin.

Alternative forms

  • gripa (Colombia, Mexico)

Noun

gripe f (plural gripes)

  1. (pathology) flu, influenza
    Synonym: influenza
    Tengo la gripe. ― I have the flu.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

gripe

  1. inflection of gripar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “gripe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

  • pigre

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian grīpa, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡripə/

Verb

gripe

  1. to grab, to grasp

Inflection

Derived terms

  • begripe

Further reading

  • “gripe (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org