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Example sentences for: grockle
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The page heading was Jimmy and His Grockle , so Mr Rivers was able to validate and localize the memory that had floated to the surface of his mind in the mid 1950s.
There have been various attempts to illuminate the uncertain origin of grockle , from the fanciful to the plausible.
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.
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.
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 .