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Definition of Grinches
1. grinch [n] - See also: grinch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grinches
Literary usage of Grinches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters to His Son: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1901)
"Were I to make my way to favor in a court, I would neither willfully, nor by
negligence, give a dog or a cat there reason to dislike me. Two pies-grinches ..."
2. Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative by Leigh Hunt (1891)
"Pronounce it, by all means, grinches, to make the joke more wilful. The happiest
triple rhyme, perhaps, that ever was written, is in Don Juan:— But oh ! ye ..."
3. An Answer to the Question 'what is Poetry?' Including Remarks on Versification by Leigh Hunt (1893)
"... 5 And prove that she's not made of green cheese.1 Pronounce it, by all means,
grinches, to make the joke more wilful. The happiest triple rime, perhaps, ..."
4. Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever (1829)
"Un jour à la Croix-Rouge Nous étions dix à douze. (She interrupted herself with "
just as we now are.") Nous étions dix à douze Tous grinches de renom, ..."
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