All 8 Uses

begrudge
in
Angela's Ashes
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Is he going to begrudge us a puff of a fag, the only comfort we have in the world?†
Chpt 2

begrudge = resent; or give unwillingly
A man on the dole goes home after a day with the bookie or the newspaper and his wife will not begrudge him a few minutes with the ease and peace of his cigarette and his tea and time to sit in his chair and think of the world.†
Chpt 3 *
Oh, no, says Mam, they won't disagree and they won't step outside, that bunch of tinkers and knackers and begrudgers that hang around the pubs.†
Chpt 5

begrudgers = people who resent or give unwillingly
That's what you are an' a feckin' begrudger too with your feckin' sangwidge an' your feckin' Sacred Heart of Jesus on the wall an' your feckin' holy water.†
Chpt 6

begrudger = someone who resents or gives unwillingly
They're happy telegram boys because the tips they get in the lanes are bigger than anything they get in the grand streets and avenues where rich people will begrudge you the steam of their piss.†
Chpt 9

begrudge = resent; or give unwillingly
He says, To hell with the begrudgers.†
Chpt 10

begrudgers = people who resent or give unwillingly
Make up your own bloody mind and to hell with the safeshots and the begrudgers.†
Chpt 16
'Tis your life, make your own decisions and to hell with the begrudgers, Frankie.†
Chpt 16

Definitions:

(1) (begrudge)
to resent (feel bitterness--usually over unfairness); or to give unwillingly
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)