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词组 grockle
释义 grockle
noun
  1. 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
  2. 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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