Grouty
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Grouty is an adjective meaning Full of grout(s), that is, sediment.
Meaning
Full of grout(s), that is, sediment.
More Meanings
- Turbid as with liquor.
- (chiefly Northern US) Angry or surly, sulky.
- (chiefly Northern US) Lowering; threatening to rain or storm.
Example Sentences
How easy to be kind and pleasant: how uncomfortable to be rude and grouty!
You better go down to your company, or that long-nosed Englishwoman'll get even groutier than she is.
Though I suppose if you've no one to love but a grouty old mother, you don't have the worry and fear for your menfolk heavy on you, Mercy conceded.
[…] the Wash of the Dung runs into this Pond, and thickens it to that degree, that many have wondered how the Cattle could drink such grouty, black, stinking Water, full of Lice, Worms, Bugs, and other Insects.
Word Forms
- groutier
- groutiest
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include groutlike, gritty, grubby, gravelly, gravelous, gristly.
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