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
- one-drop
- one-eared
- one-egg
- one-eighty
- one-eyed
- one-eyed cat
- one-eyed monster
- one-eyedness
- one fine day
- one-finger
- one-fingered
- one-fingered salute
- one-finger salute
- one flesh
- onefold
- one for his nob
- one for one
- one for the road
- Onega, Lake
- one-gallus
- one-gallused
- one-gallussed
- one-girl
- one good turn deserves another
- one-hand