gripple

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A ditch; a drain.
  2. A hook. obsolete,rare
  3. A grasp; a grip. obsolete,rare
    — Ne ever Artegall his griple strong / For any thing wold slacke, but still upon him hong.
动词 v.
  1. To grasp or grab. Scotland,obsolete,rare,transitive
    — 'If owt comes to Mulvaaney 'long o' you, I'll gripple you, clouts or no clouts on your ugly head, an' I'll draw t' throat twistyways, man. See there now.'
形容词 adj.
  1. Griping; tenacious; gripping. Northern-England,Scotland,UK,dialectal
  2. Grasping; greedy; snatchy; mean; niggardly; avaricious, covetous. Northern-England,Scotland,UK,dialectal
    — Still as he rode, he gnasht his teeth to see Those heapes of gold with griple Covetyse
  3. Sprained. Scotland,UK,dialectal

词形变化

more gripple comparative most gripple superlative grippal alternative griple alternative grippill alternative gripples plural gripples plural gripples present,singular,third-person grippling participle,present grippled participle,past grippled past

词汇关系

衍生词
grippleness

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gripel, from Old English gripol, gripul (“able to grasp much; capacious”); equivalent to grip + -le.
词源 2
From Middle English gryppel, from Old English *gripel, *grēpel, diminutive of Old English grep, grēpe (“furrow, ditch, drain”), equivalent to grip + -le (diminutive suffix). Cognate with German Low German Grüppel (“ditch”).
词源 3
From grip + -le.
词源 4
From grip + -le (frequentative suffix).
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