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grody, a. U.S. slang.|ˈgrəʊdɪ|
Also groady, groddy |ˈgrɒdɪ|, † groaty |-tɪ|.
[In early use groaty, repr. phonetic respelling of grotesque a. + -y1. The shift of t to d is accounted for by the phonetic equivalence of intervocalic t and d in U.S. English. Cf. grotty a.]
Disgusting, revolting, ‘gross’; dirty, unhygienic, squalid; unattractive, slovenly, sloppy. Freq. in phr. grody to the max, unspeakably awful, ‘the pits’.
1965Houston Chron. 5 Sept. iv. 1/5 Groaty, adjective meaning bad in appearance. 1967Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang Suppl. 688/1 Groaty, grotty.., slovenly; ugly. Teenage use. From ‘grotesque’. 1968Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) III. 8 Groaty, physically unattractive.—College students, both sexes, Minnesota. 1969Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. li. 16 Among the adjectives with this suffix are:..groady ‘dirty and grubby’. 1982Los Angeles Times 21 June v. 1/4 Grody is used to describe a disgusting object. Moon Zappa calls her toenails ‘Grody to the max', which means disgusting beyond belief. 1985People Weekly (U.S.) 18 Mar. 36/3 In Los Angeles, girls use the phrase ‘Vogue modele’ to describe themselves sarcastically when they are in grody disarray. 1990Chicago Tribune 9 Feb. vii. 90/3 Her status-conscious friends think he's ‘grody to the max’, but his sweet and creative demonstrations of devotion convince her that he's her Prince Charming. |