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Traditional English :: grocer
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grocompass.html - n. a dealer in food and household provisions. [ME & AF grosser, orig. one who sells in the gross, f. OF grossier f. med.L grossarius (as GROSS)] |
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Traditional English :: grocery
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grocompass.html - n.
(pl. -ies)
1 a grocer's trade or shop.
2 (in pl.) provisions, esp. food, sold by a grocer. |
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Traditional English :: grockle
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grocompass.html - n.
dial. & sl. a visitor or holiday-maker, esp. from the North or Midlands to SW England. [20th c.: orig. uncert.] |
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English Idioms :: groove
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grocompass.html - See: IN THE GROOVE. |
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English Idioms :: gross out
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grocompass.html - {v.}, {slang} To commit a vulgar act; to repel someone by saying a disgusting or vulgar thing. * /You are going to gross out people if you continue talking like that./ |
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English Idioms :: gross-out session
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grocompass.html - {n.}, {slang}, {avoidable} A verbal contest between teen-agers in which the object of the game is to see who can be more disgusting or vulgar than anybody else. * /When Jim got home he found his two teen-age sons engaged in a gross-out session; he bawled them out and cut their weekly allowance./ |
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