grumphie Chiefly Sc.
(ˈgrʌmfɪ)
Also 9 grumphy.
[f. grumph v. + -ie.]
A quasi-proper name for the pig.
| 1785 Burns Halloween xxi, She trotted thro' them a'; An' wha was it but Grumphie. 1824 Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 212 Wi' his mouth fu' o' strae, He to his den will gae; Grumphie is a prophet, wat weather we will hae. 1834 M. Scott Cruise Midge (1836) II. vi. 206 A black hand..protruded every now and then, to give grumphy..a good crack over the skull. 1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 230 If he find grumphy so lazy, that nothing but a stroke will raise him. |