单词 | grubble |
释义 | grubblev.ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (intransitive)] gropec825 handlea1300 taste1377 grappe1382 grasp1382 grubblea1690 the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (transitive)] > examine by gropec1000 handleOE tastec1290 feela1400 grob1654 explore1689 grubblea1690 pouter1808 palpate1850 fingle1907 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > with difficulty scrape1549 to grubble upa1690 a1690 Bp. E. Hopkins Nat. & Necess. Regeneration (1694) 28 Being now deprived of the Image of God, the Soul grubbles here below. 1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian i. i. 10 Let me rowl, and grubble thee. a1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Art of Love (1709) i. iv. 73 There I will be, and there we cannot miss, Perhaps to grubble, or at least to kiss. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 444. ⁋4 He looked at the Fish, then at the Fiddle, still grubling in his Pockets,..then altered his Mind as to Farthings and gave my Friend a Silver Sixpence. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 353 I'll grubble all my Jokes up to Delight ye. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 329 And Foreign Sol fa, grubbles up the Pence. 2. intransitive. = grub v. 6b. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > grub or root about in the earth nuzzle1530 grub1647 rootle1803 grubble1867 1867 G. MacDonald Poems 265 The limping, cheating plover Not upon an elm tree hover, But prefer in fields to grubble With the partridge. Derivatives ˈgrubble n. rare an act of ‘grubbling’. ΚΠ 1852 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 19 336 The cherubs hungry come from play, Dirt-pies and gutter grubbles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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