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▪ I. † grot1 Obs.
Forms: 1–4 grot, 3–5 grote, (3 greot), 4 grott(e.
[OE. grot str. neut., related by ablaut to gréot grit n.1, grytt grit n.2, grút grout: see also groats.]
A fragment, particle, atom. every grot = every whit.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxv. §1 Hu mæᵹ þonne æniᵹ man rihtwislice..acsiᵹan, ᵹif he nan grot rihtwisnesse on him næfð. a1225Ancr. R. 260 Of al þe brode eorðe ne moste he habben a grot, forte deien uppon. a1240Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 251 Iteilede draken..to cheoweð ham euch greot. c1300Havelok 472 Of bothen he karf on two here throtes, And sithen hem al to grotes. a1330Roland & V. 786 Now ich wot, Ȝour cristen lawe eueri grot. c1386Chaucer Friar's Prol. 28, I shal hym quiten euery grot. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. xli. (Tollem. MS.), Atthomis a litill þinge, as it were, of þe grotis in þe Sonne beme. 1399Langl. Rich. Redeles Prol. 35 Not to grucchen a grott aȝeine godis sonde. c1400St. Alexius (Laud 622) 608 Ac on Ionas fel vche grot. c1425Seven Sag. (P.) 2071 Hys eyen, hys nose, and hys throte, Thay fyldan wit golde every grote.
▪ II. † grot2 Obs.
Also 4 grate.
[a. ON. grát-r, cogn. w. gráta: see grote v.]
Weeping, lamentation.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 1577 Grot sal bi-cumen, And wreche of iacob sal bi-numen. Ibid. 1978 Long grot and sorȝe is him bi-tid. Ibid. 2288, 3717. 13.. St. Alexius 570 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 187 His wife kome þan wiþ sorowfull late Wiþ goulinge & wiþ rewfull grate.
▪ III. grot3 Now only poet.|grɒt|
Forms: 6–8 grott(e, 7 grote, 6– grot.
[ad. F. grotte: see grotto.]
1. a. = grotto 1.
1506Sir R. Guylforde Pilgr. (Camden) 16 There we lay in the same grotte or caue Frydaye all day vpon the bare, stynkynge, stable grounde. 1598Florio, Grotta, a grot, a cave, a den, a caverne. 1608E. Grimstone Hist. France (1611) 1030 To shew him his buildings, his Grots or Caues, and his Chases. 1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. Ep. Ded. 23 They who for their security runne into grots and cellars. 1670–98R. Lassels Voy. Italy II. 186 Entring into the Grotte of Pausilipus we found it to be about forty foot high. 1680Morden Geog. Rect., Germany (1685) 113 In his Palace or Castle of Heidelburg are divers things remarkable, viz. the Grotes and Water-works. 1702W. J. Bruyn's Voy. Levant xxxvi. 143 Near those Buildings of everlasting continuance there are also some Grotts or Caves. 1753Johnson Adventurer No. 108 ⁋5 A natural grot shaded with myrtles. a1755Shenstone in Dodsley Coll. Poems (1755) IV. 351 Here in cool grot and mossy cell We rural fayes and faeries dwell. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. xxviii, Mermaid's alabaster grot. 1901‘M. Franklin’ My Brilliant Career xxii. 192 She and Harold would rest while I did the honours of the fern grots to my companion. 1958R. Liddell Morea ii. i. 45 On the plain there is a spring of excellent water, which comes here underground from the grot of Hermes.
†b. A crypt under a church. Obs.
1658J. Burbury Hist. Christina A. of Swedland 441 Her Majesty, when she had ador'd the most holy Sacrament, went down into the grots below the Church. 1670–98R. Lassels Voy. Italy II. 28, I got leave to go down into the Grot under this Church.
2. = grotto 2.
1641Evelyn Diary 19 Aug., We..went to visit the Hoff, or Prince's Court, with the adjoining gardens full of..grots, fountains, and artificial music. 1693C. Dryden in Dryden's Juvenal (1607) 172 Lucan..may lie at ease In costly Grotts, and marble Palaces. 1749Lady Luxborough Let. to Shenstone 24 June, You may be secure in your grott from all intruders, and see your Shrubbery prosper unmolested. 1764Oxford Sausage 60 Fresh Shade and Vale No more to visit, or vine-mantled Grot. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 366 The Baron is blind to a beauteous day, If it beam in my Lady's grot. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. iii, He opened a cool grot at the end of the yard.
▪ IV. grot4|grɒt|
Abbrev. of grotesque n. 3.
1961SIA Jrnl. Sept. 6/2 Typography..is dominated by a particular sort of sans-serif letter, the ‘grotesque’... It is useful to examine this dictatorship of the grot. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin i. 11 He sipped..tea from an antique Meissen cup; around mine it said ‘British Railways S.R.’ in brown grot letters.
▪ V. grot, n.5 slang.
Brit. |grɒt|, U.S. |grɑt|
[Shortened ‹grotty adj. Compare grot n.4]
1. Brit. and Austral. An unpleasant, dirty, or ugly person.
1970‘B. Mather’ Break in Line v. 56 This other grot came back and took the order over. 1980Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 Apr. 4/3 If you look like a grot, you'll never get a flat. If you sleep on a beach you look like a grot. 1995A. Warner Morvern Callar (1996) 139 I'm no shy, I'm going topless on the beach anyways, I just hope I get a real honeybunch not some grot, says Lanna. 2000Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 1 Dec. 32 The two limp-wristed grots have to put up with Mum and Dad going at it like Trojans all night in the room next door.
2. Brit. Rubbish, dirt, grime. Also: filthiness, grottiness.
1971Civil Service Motoring Sept. 31/2 Old cars, when the insides of their radiator may be coated with a couple of decades' worth of grot, overheat far more readily. 1982J. Wain Young Shoulders vi. 107 This place, the tawdriness, the awful mound of grot it all is, stands between me and feeling anything. 1992Independent 19 Jan. 19/3 Glamour posing as grot is a fine spectator sport. 2002Stationary Engine Mag. July 15/1, I always used to scrape and chisel the worst of any adhering grot off mine simply to find out what was underneath in case it was going to be a waste of time before I started.
▪ VI. grot, a. slang.|grɒt|
Shortened form of grotty a.
1967Sun 22 Feb. 6/6 [Teenage terms] Grot, from grotty, itself derived from grotesque. 1983Listener 11 Aug. 14/1 What with grot hotels..and general anxiety, I had not had what I would call a meal since leaving Khartoum. 1985Times 3 Sept. 8/2 A new film can be ‘totally brilliant’ or ‘totally grot’. |