grockle
/ˈɡrɒk(ə)l
/noun British informal, often derogatory
A holidaymaker, especially one visiting a resort in Devon or Cornwall.Everything's damp and miserable out there, not least the grockles [holiday makers]....
- These grockles are the least professional of holiday-makers.
- There was a time when you'd go out on a Saturday morning shortly before Easter to do a bit of shopping in town and discover that, all of a sudden, the grockles had arrived and the new holiday season with them.
Origin
An invented word, originally a fantastic creature in a children's comic, adopted arbitrarily and popularized by the film The System (1964).
Rhymes
- system integration
- system-integrative
- system integrator
- systemise
- systemist
- systemization
- systemize
- systemizer
- systemless
- system operator
- system program
- system programer
- system programmer
- system programming
- systems administrator
- systems analysis
- systems analyst
- systems design
- systems designer
- systems engineer
- systems engineering
- systems integrator
- system software
- systems program
- systems programer