Lexicographical Neighbors of Grumph
Literary usage of Grumph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Folk-tales of the Magyars by János Kriza, János Erdélyi, Gyula Pap (1889)
"After a short time the pig arrived in the court-yard of the palace dragging a
wheelbarrow after it, and grunted, " grumph! grumph! grumph! ..."
2. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories: A by Robert Ford (1904)
"So after a time these little pigs died, They all died of fe-lo-de-see, From trying
too hard to say " grumph ! grumph ! grumph !" When they only could say ..."
3. John Webster & the Elizabethan Drama by Rupert Brooke (1916)
"grumph is one of the holiest things in this melancholy world," and so forth.
And soon they'd say, " But, philosophically, what is grumph ? ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"[< grumph, ».] A grunt. [Scotch.] He drew a long sigh, ... [< grumph + dim. -ie.]
A sow. [Scotch.] She trotted thro' them »'— And wha was it but ..."
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