Lexicographical Neighbors of Grouf
Literary usage of Grouf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"»i. To sleep in a disturbed manner, breathing heavily through the nostrils, Ang.
Fife, Loth. Often, to grouf m ..."
2. Twenty Years at Court: From the Correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley by Eleanor Julian Stanley Long (1916)
"... jour," as one of the French papers expresses it, the " Charmante Duchesse de B.
cut 1'idee originale de repondre, au lieu de ' Bow-wow ! ' —c grouf! ..."
3. Irving's Sketch Book by Washington Irving (1901)
"high-crowned hat and feather, red stockings, and high heeled shoes with roses in
them. The whole grouf reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish ..."
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