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growlery|ˈgraʊlərɪ|
[f. growl v.3 + -ery.]
1. Growling, rumbling, or grumbling.
1830Blackw. Mag. XXVII. 588 At first a low muttering is heard—a sort of mountain growlery. 1833Fraser's Mag. VII. 706 The round-about, hubble-bubble, rumfustianish..roly-poly growlery of style [of Carlyle].
2. (After Dickens's use in Bleak House.) A place to ‘growl’ in; jocularly applied to a person's private sitting room. (Cf. boudoir and den.)
1852Dickens Bleak Ho. viii, ‘Sit down, my dear’, said Mr. Jarndyce; ‘this, you must know, is the Growlery. When I am out of humour I come and growl here’. 1883‘Max O'Rell’ John Bull x. 85 Every Englishman has his boudoir..He calls this place his growlery, a name having the same meaning as our boudoir. 1887G. Macdonald Home Again ix. 68 Lady Tremaine received him in what she called her growlery. |