单词 | grouty |
释义 | ▪ I. grouty, a.1 dial.|ˈgraʊtɪ| [f. grout n.1 + -y1.] a. Muddy, dirty. b. Of the sky, weather: Thundery.
1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. III. ii. 74 Many have wondered how the Cattle could drink such grouty, black, stinking Water. 1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Grouty, soiled, dirty-looking, begrimed. 1876Whitby Gloss., Grouty, full of sediment. 1893Wiltsh. Gloss., Grouty, of the sky, thundering, threatening rain. It looks ‘ter'ble grouty’ in summer when thunder clouds are coming up. ▪ II. grouty, a.2 U.S.|ˈgraʊtɪ| [f. grout v.3 + -y1] Sulky, cross, ill-tempered. Hence ˈgroutiness.
1836Lowell Lett. (1894) I. i. 11 Been quite ‘grouty’ all the vacation: ‘black as Erebus’. 1881Pennsylv. Sch. Jrnl. XXXII. 57 As grouty and glum as if he pondered the wrongs of his race for the last two centuries. 1895Columbus (Ohio) Disp. 23 May 9/4 He can take a passenger's groutiness for what it is worth. |

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