gritch

He sleeps every night, and doesn't cry or gritch very often, and just in general seems to be enjoying his stay a little bit more.

Gritch the Witch wants to make some piggie pie, but her pantry has no pigs.

She alone knew what our elusive Mr. Gritch looked like, and we wanted a composite.

We know all about Gritch and the Nkrumah double.

"You never saw nobody but this Gritch?"

In extended hard times the eido might become a more abused scapegoat than the creature I call the gritch.

Finally it was Nan, with all the firepower, who said, "Gritch.

I already tell dem dis Sol Gritch character.

Sol Gritch brung us.

This Gritch character is obviously their agent in general charge of the operation, working with cohorts inside the Labyrinth system so he has nearly unlimited access.

(Hackers will lodge a gritch if you confuse the honest hacker with the dishonest cracker.)

We've tracked a Sol Gritch here in the Philadelphia area, but he died nine years ago and was a real-estate speculator and slumlord.

Often verb-doubled: "Gritch gritch".

And, of course, there was Nan's composite of Gritch, supplemented by Bill's detective team up at State College and some old photos from the obit files.

Nkrumah was irrelevant, but when the girls had not only begun to come over to our side, but had brought up Gritch and others they didn't know but had met, she knew she had to act, and fast.

"So you told Gritch to get you three identical beauties to the ones Little Jimmy expected on his boat, and Gritch had already prepared a whole list of duplicates, if need be, from his world.

Since we have a Preacher, it seems likely we'll also have a Loan Shark, a Moonshiner, a Peddler (the man who always has something to sell, and who can get you anything you want), a Bookmaker, a Thief, and a Gritch.

Say "computer lingo" to most people, and they'll rattle off their rudimentary knowledge of the meaning of byte, hacker and cybersex gritch (the last marries digiporn to the portmanteau of grouch and glitch, producing a phrase meaning "hacker's complaint about the encryption of dirty pictures").

His concerns - the terrors of speaking in front of a class or facing Billy Gritch's infamous fastball - are never made to seem trivial, and Tor Seidler pulls off the difficult feat of making us comprehend simultaneously Edward's father's good-heartedness and Edward's impatience and estrangement.