grindy

grind +‎ -y

grindy (comparative more grindy or grindier, superlative most grindy or grindiest)

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of grinding.

   a grindy noise

   • 1986, H[enry] R[eymond] F[itzwalter] Keating, “Old P”, in Ellery Queen’s Prime Crimes, Secaucus, N.J.: Castle, published 1988, →ISBN, page 352:

     And “Old P” had stuck, for the whole of the year that Tony had had her, as her grinding day by day got grindier and her spluttering splutterier.

   • 2004 fall–winter, Brian, “Solid Decline / Strong Intention – split EP”, in Profane Existence: Making Punk a Threat Again!, number 46, Minneapolis, Minn.: Profane Existence, →ISSN, page 81, column 1:

     The songwriting is a bit more grindy than I recall on their other releases, but I’m into that anyway.

   • 2008, Chris Lynch, “Game On”, in The Big Game of Everything, New York, N.Y.: HarperTeen, →ISBN, page 264:

     I head for the door, but instantly the bumping, gurgling diesel sound gets louder, grindier, it becomes more frantic, and I do too.

   • 2016, Alan Brough, “The Explosion”, in Charlie and the War Against the Grannies, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan, →ISBN, page 262:

     [T]he gun had stopped firing and started making a horrible grinding noise and burping out thick, stinky smoke. […] The grinding got grindier.

2. (video games, informal) Involving a lot of repetition in order to progress.
   • 2009 June, Lynxara [pseudonym; Alicia Ashby], Vivek Varadarajan, “Free Realms”, in Hardcore Gamer Magazine, volume 5, number 1, [Redmond, Wash.]: DoubleJump Publishing, →ISSN, page 12:

     HGM’s writers have spent time in the grindiest of grindy Korean and Japanese free-to-plays, but Free Realms is something new and different and better.

   • 2010, Scott Rogers, “More Wealth Than You Can Imagine!”, in Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, →ISBN, Level 13 (Now You’re Playing with Power), page 365:

     Greed will get players to do interesting things. They will grind their way through the grindiest MMOs to get that stronger sword, that unique hat, gain that next level.

   • 2011, Dave Randall, “All in the Game: Families, Peer Groups and Game Playing in the Home”, in Richard Harper, editor, The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life, London: Springer, →ISBN, Part II (Experiencing the Connected Home), page 129:

     [T]he student may have sufficient time to spend hours on even the ‘grindiest’ of games or, elsewhere, the mundanities of working life intervene.

   • 2012, Scott Rogers, Swipe This!: The Guide to Great Touchscreen Game Design:

     Beware, as these achievements can feel “grindy” unless there is a worthwhile reward attached.

   • 2015, Richard A. Bartle, MMOs from the Inside Out:

     Some players seem to think that grindy content has been put in on purpose to pad out play […]

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grindy

1. inflection of grinda:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative plural
   3. accusative plural