Gritch

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  gritch
       
          /grich/ 1.  A complaint (often caused by a {glitch}).
       
          2. To complain.  Often verb-doubled: "Gritch gritch".
       
          3. A synonym for {glitch} (as verb or noun).
       
          (1995-01-31)