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gritch: /grich/ [MIT] 1. n. A complaint (often caused
by a glitch). 2. vi. To complain. Often
verb-doubled: “Gritch gritch”. 3. A synonym for glitch (as verb or
noun). Interestingly, this word seems to have a separate history from
glitch, with which it is often confused. Back in
the early 1960s, when ‘glitch’ was strictly a hardware-tech's
term of art, the Burton House dorm at M.I.T. maintained a “Gritch
Book”, a blank volume, into which the residents hand-wrote
complaints, suggestions, and witticisms. Previous years' volumes of this
tradition were maintained, dating back to antiquity. The word
“gritch” was described as a portmanteau of
“gripe” and “bitch”. Thus, sense 3 above is at
least historically incorrect.
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