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grumph
▪ I. grumph, n. Sc. (grʌmf) [f. grumph v.] A grunt, whether from an animal or a human being.1737 Ramsay Sc. Prov. (1797) 23 Better thole a grumph than a sumph. 1814 Saxon & Gael I. v. 42 He drew a long sigh or rather grumph, through his nose, while he shook his head and said, ‘O Jane! Jane! ye was a...
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grumphy
grumphy, a. (ˈgrʌmfɪ) [Cf. grumph v.] = grumpy.1846 Mrs. Gore Eng. Charac. 95 Conviviality only renders him grumphier and grumphier.
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grumphie
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 ...
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hogsty
ˈhogsty Also hog's sty. A pigsty.c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 803/44 Hoc porcatorium, a hogstye. a 1529 Skelton Merie T. xiii. in Shaks. Jest Bk. (1864) II. 25 He wente & charged one of hys boyes, in an euenyng..to sette fyre in one of hys hogges sties. 1669 Woodhead St. Teresa ii. xvii. 118 He ...
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grump
▪ I. grump, n. (grʌmp) [? Suggested by grunt, with ending imitative of an inarticulate exclamation of displeasure; cf. grumph v.] † 1. humps and grumps: slights and snubs.1727 De Foe Protest. Monast. 4 Under many Hardships and Restrictions, many Humps and Grumps. 1760 Gray Lett. Wks. 1884 III. 40 We...
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birse
▪ I. birse, n.1 Sc. (bɜːs, Sc. bɪrs) Forms: 1 byrst, 4 brust, 6 byrs(s, birs. Pl. birses; also 6–7 byrss. [In 16th c. birs, birss, for earlier birst:—OE. byrst, cogn. with OHG. burst, bursti, ON. burst (Sw. borst, Da. börste) ‘bristle.’ Only Sc. in later times.] 1. = bristle. (to lick the birse: to ...
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