gripe

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gripe/ɡrʌɪp/

▶verb

• 1 informal complain about something trivial.

• 2 (usu. as adj. griping) affect with gastric or intestinal pain.

• 3 archaic grasp tightly; clutch.

• 4 Nautical secure with gripes.

• 5 Sailing (of a ship) turn to face the wind in spite of the helm.

▶noun

• 1 informal a trivial complaint.

• 2 gastric or intestinal pain; colic.

• 3 archaic an act of grasping.

• 4 (gripes) Nautical lashings securing a boat in its place on deck or in davits.

– derivatives
griper noun.

– origin OE grīpan ‘grasp, clutch’, of Gmc origin; rel. to grip and grope.