grummel
English
Etymology
Origin unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɹʌməl/
Noun
grummel
- Mud, sediment.
- (in the plural) The dregs.
- 1936, Henry Miller, “Into the Night Life …”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], OCLC 459562537; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 179:
- Gowselling in the grummels he wakes the plaintiff night with pitfalls turning left to right, high noon on the wintry ocean, high noon all sides aboard and aloft to starboard.
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