gridle
English
Verb
gridle (third-person singular simple present gridles, present participle gridling, simple past and past participle gridled)
- To sing badly with the aim of soliciting donations out of sympathy.
- 1908, W. H. Davies, chapter 31, in The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp:
- He also gridled sacred hymns in the streets, and sung sporting songs in the alehouses.
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