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grockle noun- a tourist UK, 1964
Disparaging; sometimes shortened to “grock”. Grock was the professional clown-name of Charles Adrien Wettach (1880–1959), hence “grockle” is probably intended to represent a tourist as a clown; however not abbreviated until the 1990s. - It was too weird to be brawling with grocks in the middle of Amsterdam in the middle of a Friday afternoon[.] — Kevin Sampson, Powder, p. 315, 1999
- a social inferior UK
Disparaging, upper-class usage; acquired from the sense as “tourist”. - A grockle is a mixture of an oik and an incompetent. — Ann Barr and Peter York, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook, p. 91, 1982
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