What does gropery mean?
Gropery means (uncommon) Groping; the act of, or an instance of, groping..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(uncommon) Groping; the act of, or an instance of, groping..
To look over your MS will be pure amusement & gratification to me; & it will be kindness to furnish me with so pleasant a relief from my own faggings, & book-huntings, & groperies, & pokeries, & sweepings, & cobweb-catchings.
She finds this unspeakably funny and barks herself off into the darkness whilst the gropery of her partner goes on apace. Exterior / CHAPEL YARD / Night / Drinking Fountain BEATRICE charges into view, […]
State quacks, bills for Popery, Not for our merits, Lord, we claim, Stage-reminiscences, frolics, and fibs, Exemption from the woe; Lumps, bumps, gall and scull-gropery, We ask it all in Mercy's name, […]
What the deuce, then, should make you shrink now, when almost all drudgery, and gropery and pokery is over; when you have plenty of materials to produce, and every step will bring you into a more pleasurable country, […]
[…] including “party gropery” - the brief surreptitious petting that often goes on in gardens, on balconies, and in kitchens — is analogous to the orgiastic festivals in which married people, in preliterate societies, were permitted a brief period of […]
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Gropery means (uncommon) Groping; the act of, or an instance of, groping..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
To look over your MS will be pure amusement & gratification to me; & it will be kindness to furnish me with so pleasant a relief from my own faggings, & book-huntings, & groperies, & pokeries, & sweepings, & cobweb-catchings.
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