grockle
/ˈɡrɒk(ə)l
/noun British informal, often derogatory
A holidaymaker, especially one visiting a resort in Devon or Cornwall.Everything's damp and miserable out there, not least the grockles [holiday makers]....
- These grockles are the least professional of holiday-makers.
- There was a time when you'd go out on a Saturday morning shortly before Easter to do a bit of shopping in town and discover that, all of a sudden, the grockles had arrived and the new holiday season with them.
Origin
An invented word, originally a fantastic creature in a children's comic, adopted arbitrarily and popularized by the film The System (1964).
Rhymes
- liquescent
- liqueur
- liqueur chocolate
- liqueur glass
- liquid
- liquidambar
- liquidate
- liquidation
- liquidator
- liquid crystal
- liquid crystal display
- liquid diet
- liquidise
- liquidiser
- liquidity
- liquidity preference
- liquidity ratio
- liquidize
- liquidizer
- liquid lunch
- liquidly
- liquid measure
- liquidness
- Liquid Paper
- liquid paraffin