GRIPING
- Express a complaint or grumble about something, esp. something trivial
- Distress; annoy
- Affect with gastric or intestinal pain
- Grasp tightly; clutch
- GRIPE, to complain peevishly [v]
- Secure (a boat) with gripes
- (of a ship) Turn to face the wind in spite of the helm
- the act of grumbling [n -S]