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grotty; grot; grotbags
adjective
unattractive, inferior UK- SIMON: Now, you’ll like these. You really “dig” them. They’re “fab” and all the other pimply hyperboles. GEORGE: I wouldn’t be seen dead in them. They’re dead grotty. SIMON: Grotty? GEORGE: Yeah, grotesque. — A Hard Day’s Night, 1964
- Unpleasant, disorganised. Younger Sloanes’ word. — Ann Barr and Peter York, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook, p. 158, 1982
- [B]ear to be led by my ring-laden hand – all grotty, second-hand cast-offs from Ratners[.] — John McCririck, John McCririck’s World of Betting, p. 9, 1991
- [George Harrison]’s other memorable achievement was to speak the line which gave us the word “grotty”. “Alun Owen made that up,” he protested recently, “I didn’t”. — Uncut, p. 45, February 2002
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