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grouty

adj

Etymology

Uncertain; compare grouchy.

  1. derived from *gʰer-✻ — “to grind, rub”
  2. inherited from *grūtą✻
  3. inherited from *grūt✻
  4. inherited from grūt — “dregs; coarse meal”
  5. inherited from growte
  6. suffixed as grouty — “grout + y”

Definitions

  1. Full of grout(s), that is, sediment.

    • […] the Wash of the Dung runs into this Pond, and thickens it to that degree, that many have wondered how the Cattle could drink such grouty, black, stinking Water, full of Lice, Worms, Bugs, and other Insects.

  2. Angry or surly, sulky.

    • How easy to be kind and pleasant: how uncomfortable to be rude and grouty!
    • You better go down to your company, or that long-nosed Englishwoman'll get even groutier than she is.
    • Amanda was fuming. […] But then, the telltale grappling and stumble step backward—thump—against the wall, which braced them through the ensuing make-out moment, however brief, until the grouty girl could be heard cooing with pleasure.

  3. Lowering

    Lowering; threatening to rain or storm.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Turbid as with liquor.

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