Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A grotto.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A grotto.
- noun Middle English forms of
groat .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Poetic A grotto.
- noun obsolete A groat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
grotto . - noun slang, uncountable Any
unpleasant substance or material. - noun slang, countable A miserable person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small cave (usually with attractive features)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Of all the shaded loveliness it hides in grot and dell!
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Walking into a grot hole you know: grubby carpets, thin curtains and badly carved-up rooms, I get very excited and see potential everywhere, but when shown the beige-carpeted, cream-walled, taste-free apartments that are supposed to be so easy to envisage yourself living in, I stumble for ideas.
Not Your Grandma's Patterned Carpet Rita Konig 2011
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One even has to imagine that the Vatican can turn a blind eye to all manner of murky grot and in times of strife will fling any amount of cash at people to shut them up.
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For our second year we left the grot-baggy house and took up a less grotty house with just two rooms and had our own private space.
Memories of that first week at university « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009
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Maybe the shock of the new blinds Kampfner to the grot of the old.
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The map has "before" and "after" photos, customised icons and sometimes some colourful quotes by staff or residents about the particular 'grot spot'.
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My question is who is paying for the rentamob,they must have a grot to sleep in and money for Big Macs.
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Home-shopping firm Grattan has shed over 1,000 jobs today amid claims that their catalogue cannot compete with the vast cornucopia of online grot for the attentions of onanistic teenagers.
News & Horoscopes Push Jelly 2009
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Home-shopping firm Grattan has shed over 1,000 jobs today amid claims that their catalogue cannot compete with the vast cornucopia of online grot for the attentions of onanistic teenagers.
Archive 2009-01-01 Push Jelly 2009
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A hostile brand is awaiting thee, no tender bride in dewy grot.
The Cyclops 2008
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