Synonyms for griper
- bear
- bellyacher
- bug
- complainer
- crab
- crank
- crosspatch
- curmudgeon
- faultfinder
- grouser
- growler
- grumbler
- grump
- kicker
- malcontent
- moaner
- murmurer
- mutterer
- sorehead
- sourpuss
- whiner
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR GRIPER
The Griper was in the same dangerous predicament, and there appeared every probability that she would be nipped and destroyed.
Here Captain Lyon, in the Griper, was thrown anchorless upon the mercy of a stormy sea, ice crashing around him.
Here Captain Lyon, in the "Griper," was thrown anchorless upon the mercy of a stormy sea, ice crashing around him.
WORD ORIGIN
Old English gripan "grasp at, lay hold, attack, take, seek to get hold of," from Proto-Germanic *gripanan (cf. Old Saxon gripan, Old Norse gripa, Dutch grijpen, Gothic greipan, Old High German grifan, German greifen "to seize"), from PIE root *ghreib- "to grip" (cf. Lithuanian griebiu "to seize"). Figurative sense of "complain, grouse" is first attested 1932, probably from earlier meaning "gripping pain in the bowels" (c.1600; cf. bellyache). Related: Griped; griping.