gropery

noun

Etymology

From grope + -ery.

  1. inherited from grāpian
  2. inherited from gropien
  3. formed as gropery — “grope + -ery

Definitions

  1. Groping

    Groping; the act of, or an instance of, groping.

    • State quacks, bills for Popery, Not for our merits, Lord, we claim, Stage-reminiscences, frolics, and fibs, Exemption from the woe; Lumps, bumps, gall and scull-gropery, We ask it all in Mercy's name, […]
    • What the deuce, then, should make you shrink now, when almost all drudgery, and gropery and pokery is over; when you have plenty of materials to produce, and every step will bring you into a more pleasurable country, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gropery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA