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Example sentences for: grockle
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The OED2e labels grockle as dialect and slang, of uncertain origin , and mildly disparaging , as well as associating it especially with southwest England.
He picked up Freddie Fly's use of grockle to add authenticity to his script.
The Daily Telegraph of 12 August 1986 (the last of the OED's citations) also gives grockle fodder fish and chips, grockle bait tourist souvenirs, and grockle nests camp sites.
His assistant, not surprisingly, replied, What the hell's a grockle?
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 .