Example sentences for: grockle

How can you use “grockle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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 .


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