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grubble, v.|ˈgrʌb(ə)l|
[variant of grabble v., influenced by grub v. Du. has grobbelen synonymous with grabbelen.]
†1. intr. and trans. To grope. to grubble up: to scrape together. Obs.
a1690E. Hopkins Regeneration (1694) 28 Being now deprived of the Image of God, the Soul grubbles here below. 1690Dryden Don Sebast. i. i. (1692) 8 Let me rowl and grubble thee. a1700― Ovid's Amours i. iv. 73 There I will be, and there we cannot miss, Perhaps to grubble, or at least to kiss. 1712Steele Spect. No. 444 ⁋4 He looked at the Fish, then at the Fiddle, still grubling in his Pockets,..then altered his Mind as to Farthings and gave my Friend a Silver Sixpence. 1719D'Urfey Pills I. 353, I'll grubble all my Jokes up to Delight ye. Ibid. II. 329 And Foreign Sol fa grubbles up the Pence.
2. intr. = grub v. 6 b. rare.
1867G. Macdonald Poems 265 The limping, cheating plover Not upon an elm tree hover, But prefer in fields to grubble With the partridge.
Hence ˈgrubble n., rare, an act of ‘grubbling’.
1852Tait's Mag. XIX. 336 The cherubs hungry come from play, Dirt-pies and gutter grubbles. |