grudge

Etymology

A variant of grutch (mid 15th-century, younger than begrudge), from Middle English grucchen (“to murmur, complain, feel envy, begrudge”), from Old French grouchier, groucier (“to murmur, grumble”), of Germanic origin, probably ultimately imitative. Akin to Middle High German grogezen (“to howl, wail”), German grocken (“to croak”). Compare also Old Norse krytja (“to murmur”), Old High German grunzen (“to grunt”).

noun

1. (countable) Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment.
   to have, hold, or bear a grudge against someone
   Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre, 1607, Barnabe Barnes, THE DIVILS CHARTER: A TRAGÆDIE Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the ſixt, ACTVS. 5, SCÆ. 1

verb

1. To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
   Wee shall finde our whole life so necessarily ioyned with sorrow, that we ought rather delight (and take pleasure) in Gods louing chastisements, and admonitions, then any way murmure and grudge at our crosses, or tribulations : 1608, Henrie Gosson, The Woefull and Lamentable wast and spoile done by a suddaine Fire in S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke, on Munday the tenth of Aprill. 1608., reprinted by F. Pawsey, Old Butter Market, Ipswich, 1845, page 6
   If we of the central land were to grudge you what is beneficial, and not to compassionate your wants, then wherewithal could you foreigners manage to exist? 1841, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register, Rivingtons, page 430
   Of course, his interest in the war and in the regiment was unbounded; he did not take to drill with especial readiness, but he was insatiable of it, and grudged every moment of relaxation. 1869, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Fields, Osgood, & Co., page 62
2. (obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
3. (obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.