| 单词 |
grouze |
| 释义 |
grouze, v. dial.|graʊz| Also growze, ? gruse. [? Echoic.] trans. To devour or munch with a crunching sound. Also with up.
[a1225: see gruse v.] 1624Sanderson Twelve Serm. (1637) 461 Like Swine under the Oakes, we grouze up the Ake-cornes,..and when we have done, lie wrouting, and thrusting our noses in the earth for more. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., I can't abide him, he growzes his meat like a pig. 1887S. Cheshire Gloss., Grouze, to munch, e.g. walnuts or anything else of which the crunching sound can be heard during the process. Thus we might speak of pigs grouzing raw potatoes. |

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