| 释义 |
groset Sc.|ˈgrəʊzɪt|
Also 8–9 grozet, 9 grosert, grossart.
[f. groser, by addition of excrescent t, and subsequent omission of r.]
A gooseberry.
1786Burns To a louse 26 Ye set your nose out As plump and gray as onie grozet. 1824Scott Redgauntlet Let. xiii, Saunders lap at the proposition, like a cock at a grossart. 1890J. Service Thir Notandums iii. 14 A chappin o' grozets.
attrib.1821Galt Annals Parish xxviii. (1895) 178 Many..had planted groset and berry bushes. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIII. 367 His grozet eyes. 1895Cumnock News 28 Jan. 5/7 Grozet Fair day. 1896Crockett Grey Man xiv. 101 The garden..was full of groset bushes. |