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groise Public School slang.|grɔɪz|
Also groize.
[Perh. altered form of grease n. 5 b.]
a. A hard worker, a swot; one who curries favour.
b. Hard work. So groise v. intr., to work hard, to swot; to curry favour; ˈgroiser, ˈgroising vbl. n.
1913A. Lunn Harrovians ii. 37 ‘Are you a scholar?’.. ‘Yes, in history.’ ‘Oh, then you'll probably be in our form,’ said Cadby. ‘I suppose you're a horrid little groise?’ Ibid. 306 We all have to groise a lot harder than we used. Ibid. 307 The whole time-table's altered... They try and make groise more amusing. You can choose your own line of sweat much more. Ibid. 311 ‘What's the old place coming to?’ ‘It's in a very bad way, I'm afraid. Why, groising is in a fair way to becoming fashionable.’ ‘Oh rot! I say, rot! You'll be telling me next that a man's keener on getting some bally scholarship than on getting his fez.’ 1936‘I. Hay’ Housemaster 115 The School looked forward to it [sc. the Regatta] with strained anticipation from the first day of term,—oarsmen, cricketers, and groisers alike. 1940M. Marples Public School Slang 130 Groise, to curry favour (Cheltenham, 1928+). Ibid. Groize (Uppingham, 1930+), one who is over-efficient—e.g. a corps groize is one who tries to gain favour by his efficiency in the O.T.C. |