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grubble

verb

Etymology

From grub + -le, frequentative, but compare grabble.

  1. inherited from grub
  2. derived from *grub-✻ — “to dig”
  3. derived from *grubb-✻
  4. derived from *grubb-✻
  5. inherited from *grubbian✻
  6. inherited from grubben
  7. formed as grubble — “grub + -le”

Definitions

  1. To feel or grope in the dark.

    • When all depart, when Complements are loud, / Be sure to mix among the thickest Crowd: / There I will be, and there we cannot miss, / Perhaps to Grubble, or at least to Kiss.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for grubble. 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