Gripple
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɡɹɪpəl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Gripple is an adjective meaning (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Griping; tenacious; gripping.
Meaning
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Griping; tenacious; gripping.
More Meanings
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Grasping; greedy; snatchy; mean; niggardly; avaricious, covetous.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) Sprained.
- A ditch; a drain.
- (obsolete, rare) A hook.
- (obsolete, rare) A grasp; a grip.
- (obsolete, transitive, rare, Scotland) To grasp or grab.
Example Sentences
It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless […]
Still as he rode, he gnasht his teeth to see Those heapes of gold with griple Covetyse
Ne ever Artegall his griple strong / For any thing wold slacke, but still upon him hong.
'If owt comes to Mulvaaney 'long o' you, I'll gripple you, clouts or no clouts on your ugly head, an' I'll draw t' throat twistyways, man. See there now.'
Word Forms
- grippal
- griple
- grippill
- gripples
- grippling
- grippled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gropey, gawming, grudgesome, gritten, gormy, gawping.
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