grotesquery

noun

Etymology

From grotesque + -ery, calquing French grotesquerie, q.v.

  1. derived from grottesco
  2. borrowed from grotesque
  3. suffixed as grotesquery — “grotesque + ery

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of grotesquerie.

    • Mr Carlyle had not maligned her looks: plain she undoubtedly was, not in any sense describably ugly but with a sort of pug-dog grotesquery.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for grotesquery. 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