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This version claims that grockle was the spontaneous coinage of a worker in the southwest holiday trade, prompted by an early memory of a picture story in a children's comic.
This was the first national publicity for the hitherto local expression, and the OED's first citation of grockle is, in fact, from Flims & Fliming , 31 October 1964, extracted from a review of what is presumably The System .
But I personally would speculate that the unknown creator of Jimmy and his Grockle in the early 1930s keew the sort of word that resonates in children's memories.
The old lady and the three equally diminutive adults and two small children in her North Country group regularly visited the boating-lake during their holiday, and the staff took a fancy to the expression Mr Rivers had used and would say things like Your grockle family's here and so on.
The OED2e labels grockle as dialect and slang, of uncertain origin , and mildly disparaging , as well as associating it especially with southwest England.