Examples
“However for all the troops out there here are some gripes from the control room:”
“One of their main gripes: Community boards are unfair.”
The Wall Street Journal: Clubs, Eateries Target Local Boards
“This conversation will merely be replaced with the gripes from the side who didn't get their wish.”
Council Should Unite Behind McGinn On The Tunnel Cost Overrun Provision « PubliCola
“Winifred ... is the subject of one of my main gripes with the movie Ballet Shoes.”
mrissa: They'll put it on my tombstone: "The book was better."
“Another one of my gripes is PCSO, wouldnt it just have been easier to train tehm as ‘proper’ police officers so when they do get teh 14 year old having a tnatrum they dont have to lock themselves in a room and call a ‘proper’ copper to come and help them”
“One of Brian's gripes is that, as authors so often say in his position, the reviewer does not seem to have read the book.”
“These guys don't exactly have the recent credentials to back themselves up in gripes about playing time and competition for jobs.”
“I do a load of towels daily as a result. but, alhamdullilah, my list of gripes is shorter than my list of blessings!”
“However, my main gripes with the new film have less to do with his knowledge of boxing/wrestling/etc., and have far more to do with the character’s portrayal as womanizing lecher.”
“Obidom - In reply to your “Another one of my gripes is PCSO, wouldnt it just have been easier to train tehm as ‘proper’ police officers”, this would have meant paying PCSOs the same rate as PCs, and that REALLY wasn’t part of the Government’s plan!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gripes’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Afflictions of the Realm
archaic diseases
dropsy, quinsy, tisick, measles, croup, gout, canker, teething, overlaying, mold-shot head, thrush, whooping-cough and 56 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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whaling terms
Terms defined in the glossary of Clifford W. Ashley's "Yankee Whaler".
advance, adze, after house, after oar, agent, air up, alow, ambergris, apeak, article, away, bailer and 299 more...
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South Yorkshire medical terminology
For definitions see the source document.
"All the words and phrases included in this guide are those that have been used by patients during consultations and have been included to assi...winkle, wind pipe, willy, widgy, well, it's a nogg..., wee-wee, water, uncle sam, tuppence, tummy ache, trotters, tootsies and 123 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gripes.
yarb Citation on bedlamite. Sep 11, 2008