[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.