Example sentences for: grockle

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

  • 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.

  • The OED2e labels grockle as dialect and slang, of uncertain origin , and mildly disparaging , as well as associating it especially with southwest England.

  • 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.

  • Mr Rivers' assistant, Freddie Fly, wrote an Ode to the Grockle and the coaches bringing the tourists were christened grockle wagons .

  • 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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