grex/ krex/ krechtz

[sagehen]

>Not in OED. Both my grandparents (who were teenagers by 1902)
>occasionally used this word / grEks / to mean "to whine or complain," esp.
>in the phrase, "always grexing about something." It has the same
>negatively critical tone as "gripe" or "bitch" (which they didn't use). I
>omitted it from HDAS as too "colloquial," but that may have been a
>mistake. (Haven't checked DARE. If it's there, these cites may still be of
>interest.)
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When I read this, it reminded me  of "grizzle," meaning fret, whine,
complain,  which I used to hear as a child.  OED lists this as a verb,
"origin obscure."  Perhaps it's an offspring of "grex."
AM
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