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Grobian|ˈgrəʊbɪən|
[a. G. grobian, ad. med.L. Grobiān-us, name of an imaginary personage, often referred to by writers of the 15–16th c. in Germany as the type of boorishness, f. G. grob coarse, rude: see gruff.]
A clownish, slovenly person. Also attrib. or as adj. Hence ˈGrobianism.
1609Dekker Gull's Horn-bk. To Rdr., This Tree of Guls.. hath a relish of Grobianisme. 1611Cotgr., Grobianisme, Grobianisme, slouenlinesse. 1621Burton Anat. iii. ii. iii. i. (1624) 420 Let them be neuer so clownish,..Grobians and sluts, if once they be in loue, they will be most neat and spruce. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes ii. iii. 43 For handsomenesse of feeding..they had been very well all trained up in Grobians school. Ibid. iii. ii. 74 He..utter'd Grobian returnes for the kinde entertainments of his friend Marius. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Grobian..a slovenly ill-bred Fellow. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! ii, He who is a Grobian in his own company will, sooner or later, become a Grobian in that of his friends. 1881A. Lang Library 48 All these slatternly practices..seem fine manly acts to the grobians who use them. |