groveller, groveler
(ˈgrɒv(ə)lə(r))
[f. grovel v. + -er1.]
One who grovels; chiefly fig.
| 1779–81 Johnson L.P., Milton (1790) I. 185 Among this lagging race of frosty grovellers he might still have risen into eminence by producing something which they should not willingly let die. 1835 J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1836) II. iv. 55 What are we but..grovellers who are creeping on to heaven? 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge xiii, Mere worms and grovellers as we are! |