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herdgroom

noun

Etymology

From herd + groom.

  1. derived from *grōaną✻ — “to grow”
  2. inherited from *grōm✻ — “swollen belly, stomach tumour, womb-child, fish roe, fish guts”
  3. inherited from *grōm✻
  4. inherited from grom
  5. compounded as herdgroom — “herd + groom”

Definitions

  1. A herdsman.

    • To whom they aunswer'd, as did appertaine, / That they were poore heardgroomes […].

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