growleryn.
/ˈɡraʊləri/ 1. Growling, rumbling, or grumbling.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > roll or rumble
humblingc1384
bubblinga1398
hurlinga1398
grolling1398
rumblec1405
rumblingc1405
rolling1535
blumbering1556
roll1602
rumblement1604
grumblinga1616
lumbering1621
volutation1640
lumber1752
growlery1830
growl1833
growling1834
grumble1899
strumble1938
1830 Blackwood's Mag. 27 588 At first a low muttering is heard—a sort of mountain growlery.
1833 Fraser's Mag. 7 706 The round-about, hubble-bubble, rumfustianish..roly-poly growlery of style [of Carlyle].
2. (After Dickens's use in Bleak House.) A place to ‘growl’ in; jocularly applied to a person's private sitting room. (Cf. boudoir n. and den.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > private or inner room
bowerc1000
chamber?c1225
privy chambera1382
closeta1387
closera1400
conclavea1400
wardrobea1400
cell?1440
garderobe?c1450
retreatc1500
parlour1561
cabinet1565
cabin1594
in-room?1615
recamera1622
sanctum sanctorum1707
adytum1800
snuggery1812
sulking-room1816
sanctum1819
anderoon1840
inner sanctum1843
thalamus1850
growlery1853
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House viii. 66 ‘Sit down, my dear,’ said Mr. Jarndyce. ‘This, you must know, is the Growlery. When I am out of humour, I come and growl here’.
1883 ‘M. O'Rell’ John Bull & Co. x. 85 Every Englishman has his boudoir..He calls this place his growlery, a name having the same meaning as our boudoir.
1887 G. MacDonald Home Again ix. 68 Lady Tremaine received him in what she called her growlery.
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