Archaic or dialectal term meaning 'begrudged' or 'stained with grit/dirt.'
Possibly from 'be-' + an Old English or Middle English word related to 'grit,' 'grout,' or 'grudge.' The '-en' ending is a past participle marker that fell out of use in modern English (like 'forgotten' or 'written').
Words ending in '-en' like 'begrutten' are linguistic fossils—they show us how English used to mark past participles before we mostly switched to '-ed.' You can see the ancient pattern in words like 'forgotten' or 'beaten.'
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