gritch

gritch /grich/  [MIT] 1. n. A complaint (often caused by a
   {glitch}).  2. vi. To complain.  Often verb-doubled: "Gritch
   gritch".  3. A synonym for {glitch} (as verb or noun).

   Interestingly, this word seems to have a separate history from
   {glitch}, with which it is often confused.  Back in the early
   1960s, when `glitch' was strictly a hardware-tech's term of art,
   the Burton House dorm at M.I.T. maintained a "Gritch Book", a
   blank volume, into which the residents hand-wrote complaints,
   suggestions, and witticisms.  Previous years' volumes of this
   tradition were maintained, dating back to antiquity.  The word
   "gritch" was described as a portmanteau of "gripe" and
   "bitch".  Thus, sense 3 above is at least historically incorrect.