groutyadj.1
/ˈɡraʊti/ dialect.
a. Muddy, dirty.
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1746 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. May xii. 74 Many have wondered how the Cattle could drink such grouty, black, stinking Water.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Grouty, soiled, dirty-looking, begrimed.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Grouty, full of sediment.
b. Of the sky, weather: Thundery.
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1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Grouty, of the sky, thundering, threatening rain. It looks ‘ter'ble grouty’ in summer when thunder clouds are coming up.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
groutyadj.2
/ˈɡraʊti/ U.S.
Sulky, cross, ill-tempered.
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1836 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. i. 11 Been quite ‘grouty’ all the vacation: ‘black as Erebus’.
1881 Pennsylv. Sch. Jrnl. 32 57 As grouty and glum as if he pondered the wrongs of his race for the last two centuries.
Derivatives
ˈgroutiness n.
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1895 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 23 May 9/4 He can take a passenger's groutiness for what it is worth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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