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Example sentences for: grockle
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In Cornwall the word emmet is used with exactly the same meaning and is likewise labelled mildly disparaging by the OED , which gives two citations, both of which include grockle , from 1975 and 1984.
In an article in Torbay's Herald Express (May 1993), he remembered hearing grockle for the first time in the late 1950s when working on the Goodrington promenade.
The Archers is set in the Midlands, but it seems the word grockle has trqanscended its southwestern connections and become a widely distributed informal term for tourist, summer visitor, or holidaymaker.
The text contained the film's extended dialogue explanation of grockle (including grockle-comforter for transistor raido and grocklebox for cheap camera) as well as its other passing references, but added about fifteen more in the narrative, with an example between quotation marks in the back-cover blurb.
Mr Rivers' assistant, Freddie Fly, wrote an Ode to the Grockle and the coaches bringing the tourists were christened grockle wagons .
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