grubblev.
/ˈɡrʌb(ə)l/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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