grone

See also: gröne and grönĕ

English

Verb

grone (third-person singular simple present grones, present participle groning, simple past and past participle groned)

  1. Obsolete spelling of groan.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I[1], published 1921:
      Dead is Sansfoy, his vitall paines are past, Though greeved ghost for vengeance deepe do grone: He lives, that shall him pay his dewties last,[*] 440 And guiltie Elfin blood shall sacrifice in hast.

Anagrams

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

grone

  1. alternative form of greyn

Etymology 2

Verb

grone

  1. alternative form of gronen

Etymology 3

Noun

grone

  1. alternative form of gron

Spanish

Etymology

Back slang for negro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɾone/ [ˈɡɾo.ne]
  • Rhymes: -one
  • Syllabification: gro‧ne

Adjective

grone m or f (masculine and feminine plural grones)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Noun

grone m (plural grones)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Further reading

  • grone”, in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española