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GROCKLE definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
grockle in British English (ˈɡrɒkəl ) noun. Southwest England dialect. a tourist, esp one from the Midlands or the North of England .
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grockle - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
The term is widely used in Devon and other areas of rural England where it refers to tourists or people recently relocated from elsewhere; it is mildly ...
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GROCKLE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Grockle definition: a tourist, esp one from the Midlands or the North of England. See examples of GROCKLE used in a sentence.
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grockle
grockle dial. and slang. (ˈgrɒk(ə)l) [Origin uncertain.] A holiday-maker or tourist (esp. in southwest England); a summer visitor. Also transf. and attrib. (Mildly disparaging.) Cf. emmet 1 b.1964 Films & Filming Oct. 31 It concerns life's drifters who wend their way down to these resorts to make an...
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Grockles and emmets - Lois Elsden
They are both nicknames for tourists, a slightly derogatory nickname, especially used by west country people when the seaside towns of Somerset, Devon, ...
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grockle, n. - Green's Dictionary of Slang
grockle n. ... 1. a tourist; also attrib. ... 2. (UK society) an outsider, with overtones of unpleasantness and boorishness. ... ← grocery, n.
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Emmet (Cornish)
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Grockle is a similar West Country dialect word used in Devon but emmet is distinctly Cornish.
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What do locals call out-of-towners round your way? - Reddit
Grockles are just tourists or holiday makers, nothing to do with race, gender etc. Fun fact: A coach is known here as a Grockle can.
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History behind the word Grockle and why tourists in Dorset are ...
Google claims the term Grockle is an 'invented word, originally a fantastic creature in a children's comic, adopted arbitrarily and popularized by the film The ...
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grockle, n. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary
What does the noun grockle mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun grockle. See 'Meaning & use' for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
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Don't be a grockle: how to be a good tourist in the West Country
“Grockle” is a word you'll rarely hear outside England's West Country. It means a tourist but in a derogatory way.
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GROCKLE. - languagehat.com
A trip to the dictionary revealed that “'Grockle' is an informal and often slightly derogatory term for a tourist.”
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Fire Star (novel)
Grockle – A real dragon that Zanna quickened the egg in Icefire. Born without fire, he turned to stone. G'lant – David and Grockle in their illuminated state.
Godith – The dragon who supposedly created the world.
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emmet
emmet (ˈɛmɪt) Forms: 1 ǽmete, -mette, -mytte, émete, 3–4 emete, (5 ematte), 4–6 emet, (emot(e, 4 Sc. a nemot, i.e. an emot), 6 emmette, (emmont), 6–7 emmot(t(e, (9 Sc. emmock), 6– emmet. (For forms with initial a, see ant.) [repr. OE. ǽmete wk. fem. (see ant). The OE. ǽ in stressed initial syllables...
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Icefire (d'Lacey novel)
David talks to Bergstrom revealing the full story of Gawain, and Grockle turns to stone like Gawain. Gawain – The last real dragon of the world and the father of Grockle.
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