grummel

English

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɹʌməl/

Noun

grummel

  1. Mud, sediment.
  2. (in the plural) The dregs.
    • 1936, Henry Miller, “Into the Night Life …”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 179:
      Gowselling in the grummels he wakes the plaintiff night with pitfalls turning left to right, high noon on the wintry ocean, high noon all sides aboard and aloft to starboard.

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