Reverse Dictionary: GREN – GRT

GRENADE – nouns
– CHICAGO PINEAPPLE a small bomb or grenade …20C Amer. sl.
– FISH TAIL a grenade …Amer. World War I sl.
– GUT-RIPPER an antipersonnel grenade that explodes at waist level …1991 US sl.
– NADE a grenade …1987 US military sl.
– PILL a hand-grenade …1919 sl.
– PINEAPPLE a hand-grenade or light trench-mortar …1916 sl.
– PINEAPPLE BOMB a hand-grenade or light trench-mortar …1916 sl.
– RED DEVIL a type of Italian hand-grenade …1944 sl.
– TICKLER a hand grenade …World War I Amer. sl.
 
GREY – adjectives
– BICE † brownish grey, dark grey …1330
– CANOUS †* grey, hoary …1513
– FAUCHIE pale yellowish grey, of a faded colour …1911 Sc.
– FEACHY † pale yellowish grey, of a faded colour …1911 Sc.
– ISET of a bluish-grey colour …1897 Sc.
– ISET-GRAY of a bluish-grey colour …1897 Sc.
– KENNET-COLOUR † grey-coloured …1530
– MUCKLE-DUN of a muddy grey or brown colour; of a nondescript colour …1916 Amer. dial.
– NIGHT AND DAY grey …20C rhyming sl.
– OOMSKIT dusky, dirty-grey or brownish in colour …1866 Sc.
– PARSON-GREY dark grey …1828 Sc.
grey – nouns 
– ELEPHANT’S BREATH a shade of colour, light steel grey …1884
– PARSON GRAY a dark shade of grey, charcoal grey …1821 Sc.
– QUAKER-COLOUR a drab or grey colour …1818
 
GREYHOUND RACING – nouns
– BOILOVER a win by long-priced entrant in horse or greyhound race …Aust. sl.
 
GRIEF, GRIEF-STRICKEN – adjectives
– BEDOLED stupefied with pain or grief …1790 Eng. dial.
– BUSTED UP grief-stricken; depressed …1892 US sl.
– CAREFUL † full of grief; mournful, sorrowful …a1000
– CROCODILIAN † making a hypocritical show of grief; cruel and treacherous; deceitful …1632
– DUMB-COMPLAINING showing sadness or grief in the face, but not expressing it in words …1788
​- MAIZLED † lost or bewildered in grief …1919 Sc.
– SAIR of the heart, etc. aching, grief-stricken, sorrowful …1739 Sc.
– TAME-GRIEF that subdues grief …1605
grief, grief-stricken – adverbs
– HEAVILY † with sorrow, grief, displeasure, or anger; grievously …c1000 obs. or arch.
grief, grief-stricken – nouns 
– BALE mental suffering; misery, sorrow, grief …c1325
– BARRAT † trouble, distress, sorrow, grief, pain …c1230
– CARE † mental suffering, sorrow, grief, trouble …c1250
– EARNING † longing desire; poignant grief or compassion …1631
– EGRIMONY †* great sorrow, grief, sadness …1626
– GRAME † grief, sorrow; harm …c1000 obs. exc. arch.
– HARM † grief, sorrow, pain, trouble, distress, affliction …a1000
– HEART-GRIEF severe grief …Bk1902 Eng. dial. 
– HEART-SCALD a great grief, disappointment, trouble …1824 Sc. & Eng. dial. 
– HEAVINESS † sadness, grief …c1275
– ILL CHEER grief …1876 Eng. dial.
– JEREMIAD a tale of grief; a doleful story
– LEVATION † an easing or diminishing of grief or pain …1656
– OFTHINKING † displeasure, vexation, disgust, grief, sorrow …a1225
– SAIR sorrow, grief …1736 Sc.
– SHOWER an outpouring of grief, sorrow, etc. …1638
– SITE † care or sorrow; grief, trouble of any kind …c1200
– TAKE a state of excitement, grief, fluster, etc. …1896 Sc.
– TAKING a state of excitement, grief, or perplexity …1899 Eng. dial.
– TALL WEEPING intense grief …L19 US sl.
– TAME-GRIEF that which subdues grief …1605
– TEAN sorrow, grief …1820 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TEEN sorrow, grief …1820 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– THOUGHT care, grief, sorrow; a burden; a cause of trouble …1899 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– WANDREME †* distress, grief …c1450
– YAMMERING † a cry of grief; a wailing …1705 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
grief, grief-stricken – verbs
– DEDOLEATE † to end one’s sorrow or grief …1623
– EAT ONE’S HEART to suffer from silent grief or vexation …1596
– EAT ONE’S OWN HEART to suffer from silent grief or vexation …1879
– HEAVY † to become heavy through weariness or grief …a1000
– OFTHINK † to cause one grief or regret …c1000
– TANG † to pierce with grief or compunction …a1400-50
grief, grief-stricken – interjections
– AY-LA! an exclamation of surprise or grief …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– LACKADAISY expressing surprise, regret, or grief …M18
– LACKADAY expressing surprise, regret, or grief …L17 arch.
– LACKANEE! † an exclamation of grief; alas! …1813 Sc.
– SARS-O-MINE! † an exclamation, esp. of grief …1864 Eng. dial.
 
GRIEVANCE – nouns
– CRABFEST an exchange of grievances …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HEAVINESS † a grievance …c950
– MISCONTENTMENT † discontent, a grievance …1660 Sc.  
– MOAN a grievance, a complaint …1910s sl., orig. military
– SCAB a grievance …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SOBFEST an exchange of grievances …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
GRIEVE – verbs
– ADOLORATE †* to vex, to grieve …1598
– CAG to grieve …1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– CARE † to sorrow or grieve …a1000
– CONTRISTATE † to make sad or sorrowful; to sadden, grieve …1616
– DARE to pain, to grieve, to hurt …1684 Eng. dial.
– DERE to pain, to grieve, to hurt …1684 Eng. dial.
– DUMP † to cast into melancholy, to sadden, to grieve, to cast down …c1585
– GIVE ONESELF ILL † to distress or trouble oneself; to grieve …a1300
– GRAME † to be vexed or displeased; to fret; to anger, grieve, vex, annoy …c1320
– GREET to weep, cry, lament, grieve …OE
– HEAVY † to weigh down; to burden; to oppress, to grieve, to distress …c897
– KAG to grieve, to vex …1866 Sc.
– KEG to annoy, to vex, to insult, to give sharp offense; to grieve …1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MAR † to confuse, to bewilder; to perplex, to trouble; to grieve, to distress …a1300
– MIRL to pine, to grieve …1864 Eng. dial.  
– OFTHINK † to seem not good; to displease, to vex, to grieve …c888
– RATIFY to grieve, to mortify …1884 Eng. dial.
– SIT † to distress, to vex, to grieve …c1230
– SITE † to grieve …a1300
– TAKE ON 1. to grieve, to lament …1876 Sc.
  2. to cry, to mourn, to grieve …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– TAKE OUT to grieve over …1825 Eng. dial.
– TROUBLY to grieve, to mourn …B1900 Eng. dial.
– VEX to feel sorry, to be distressed, to grieve …1825 Sc.
– YEARN † to mourn, to grieve …1562 
 
GRIEVED – adjectives
– CAGGED irritated, angry, annoyed, vexed, offended; grieved …Bk1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– FASHED troubled in mind, sorry, grieved; weary …1597 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– GRAME † grieved, sorrowful …c1000
– HEAVY-HEARTED grieved, sad, melancholy …c1400
– ILL grieved, sorrowful …BK1905 Sc.
 
GRIEVING – adjectives
– CARKING † burdening, distressing, grieving, fretting …c1565 obs. or arch.
– HEART-BROSSEN, HEART-BRUSSEN heartbroken, overwhelmed with grief …1848 Eng. dial.  
grieving – nouns 
– CARKING † grieving, being anxious; trouble, solicitude; anxious toil …1583 obs. or arch.
 
GRIEVOUS – adjectives
– DEAR hard, severe, heavy, grievous; dire, fell …a1000 arch.
– DERE hard, severe, heavy, grievous; dire, fell …a1000 arch.
– DERF † painful, grievous; terrible, dreadful, cruel …a1225
– GRAVAMINOUS † grievous, burdensome, annoying, distressing …1659 
– IMPORTABLE † too grievous or painful to be borne; unbearable, unendurable …c1386
– IMPORTUNABLE † burdensome, onerous, grievous, heavy …1482
– IMPORTUNATE † burdensome; grievous, grave …c1540
– IMPORTUNE † troublesome, burdensome; vexatious; grievous, heavy, severe, exacting …c1400
– NOISANT †* harmful, troublesome, grievous …a1440
– VENGIBLE † grievous, severe …1601
– VEXSOME sorrowful, full of vexation; grievous, sad …1852 Sc.
 
GRIEVOUSLY – adverbs
– DERELY grievously, extremely …1830 Eng. dial.
– DERF † grievously, terribly …c1325
– HEAVILY † with sorrow, grief, displeasure, or anger; grievously …c1000 obs. or arch.
– IMPORTUNATELY † in a burdensome or grievous way; grievously, troublesomely …1564
– IMPORTUNELY † grievously, troublesomely …a1656
 
GRIM – adjectives
– ALLAGRUGOUS discontented-looking, ill-natured, morose, disagreeable; grim, ghastly …1742  Sc.
– ATRY of persons: irritable, fretful, grim, ill-tempered …1742 Sc.
– ATTERY of persons: irritable, fretful, grim, ill-tempered …1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BOOT-FACED grim-faced, sad-faced; with an expressionless face …1942 colloq.
– GAUNT of inanimate things: grim or desolate of aspect …1840
– GRUM grim, surly, sullen, morose, glum …1771 Amer. dial.
– MALAGRUGROUS † grim, forbidding; gloomy, dismal, melancholy …1819 Sc.
– MALEGROBOLOUS † grim, forbidding; gloomy, dismal, melancholy …1819 Sc.
– MALEGRUGROUS grim, ghastly; discontented-looking …1742 Sc.
– MALLAGRUGOUS grim, ghastly; discontented-looking …1742 Sc.
grim – person
– GRIMSIR † an austere, stern, morose, or overbearing person; a grim old man; a haughty or arrogant person in office …c1450 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
grim – verbs 
– HAVE A FACE LIKE A COASTGUARD STATION to look stony and grim …c1940 sl.
 
GRIMACE – nouns
– BOWING-CHAFFS distortion of the face by grimaces …Bk1911 Sc.
– FACE a grimace …L16 sl.
– FIT OF THE FACE † a grimace; a twist or contortion of the face …1773
– MAGOWFIN a grimace …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MEE-MAW an antic or grotesque action or expression of face, a grimace; dumb show; an affected manner, affectation …1790 Eng. dial.
– MEGRIMS antics, tricks; gesticulations; grimaces …1890 Eng. dial.
– MIMMY-MAWKS wry faces, grimaces …B1900 Eng. dial.
– MOW an insulting grimace; a mock …1899 Amer. dial.
– MUG a grotesque or exaggerated facial expression; a grimace; a ‘funny face’ …1844 sl.
grimace – verbs 
– CUT A CURVET to make grimaces; to distort the features …1830
– CUT A FLOURISH to make grimaces, to distort the features …1811
– CUT AN ANTIC to make grimaces, to distort the features …1835
– CUT FACES to make grimaces; to distort the features …1665
– GANSH † to grimace …1825 Sc.
– MAKE MOWS to make grimaces or mocking faces …Bk1905 Eng. dial. 
– MEE-MAW to make signs or grimaces; to be affected; to do anything affectedly …1874 Eng. dial.
– MOP to make a grimace or sad expression
– MOP AND MOW to make a grimace or sad expression
– MUG to pull a face, esp. in front of an audience or camera; to grimace; to overact …1856 sl., orig. theatre usage
– PULL A FACE to distort one’s features, to grimace
– THRAW ONE’S GAB to grimace, to make a face, as an expression of discontent or annoyance ….1728 Sc.
– THROW THE MOUTH to make a grimace …1826 Sc.
– YIRN to distort the face; to make grimaces …Bk1905 Sc.
 
GRIMACING – adjectives
– MIMMOCKING grimacing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MIMMY-MANCKING grimacing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
GRIME – nouns
– GOONK dirt; slime; oily grime; muck …1932 Amer. sl.
– GRUNGE grease, grime, or filth; also, anything nasty or inferior; a bad, unpleasant thing; something dull or unappealing …1968 Amer. sl.
– SCHMOOTZ dirt, dust, grease, or grime …Brit. sl.
– SCHMUTZ dirt, dirty material, grime, grease, filth, dust …1968 sl.
 
GRIMLY – adverbs
– MALAGRUGROUSLY grimly, gloomily …1818 Sc.
 
GRIMY – adjectives
– GRUNDY dirty, shabby, grimy, filthy, disgusting; disreputable, unpleasant …1966 Amer. sl.
– GRUNGED-OUT filthy, dirty, grimy …1986 Amer. sl.
– GRUNGY dirty, shabby, grimy, filthy, disgusting; disreputable, unpleasant …1966 Amer. sl.
– PUGGY damp and sticky from perspiration; clammy, sweaty, dirty, grimy …1790 Eng. dial.
– SCRUNGY grimy, shabby …1974 sl., chiefly US
 
GRIN, GRINNING – adjectives
– RIDENT * radiantly cheerful; laughing, smiling, grinning …1609
grin, grinning – nouns
– CHICKEN a foolish or sheepish grin …1943 US Black college sl.
grin, grinning – person
– GIRDLER one who mocks at or ridicules another; one who grins …Bk1886 Eng. dial.
– GIRNE-GREAT a great grinner …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GIRNER one who grins, esp. in a competition …1932
– GRINAGOG † a stupid, grinning fellow; one who grins without reason or who is always grinning …1565 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GRINSHEEP a person who grins sheepishly …1906 Amer. dial.
– GRIZZLEDEMUNDY a term of abuse applied to a person who laughs at any trifling thing; a grinning fool; a stupid oaf …1818 Eng. dial.
grin, grinning – verbs 
– FLASH ONE’S IVORIES to smile, to grin …1785 sl.
– FLASH THE IVORY to grin, to smile …1860 sl.
– GANGE to show the gums; hence, to grin …1925 Sc.
– GRIN LIKE A STREET KNOCKER to grin like a Cheshire cat; to have a broad fixed smile on one’s face …1830s colloq.
– INTERGERN †* to exchange grins or snarls; to snarl back …1608 
– SKIN TEETH to smile; to grin …1994 Jamaica
– SMICKER † to smile fawningly; to smirk; to grin …1802 Sc.
– SPORT ONE’S IVORY to grin …c1786 sl.
 
GRIND – verbs
– SCRANCH to crush or grind with a sharp, grating noise; to grind between the teeth; to crunch, to eat noisily …1777 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCRAUNCH to crush or grind with a sharp, grating noise; to grind between the teeth; to crunch, to eat noisily …1777 Eng. dial.
– SKRANSH to crush or grind with a sharp, grating noise; to grind between the teeth; to crunch, to eat noisily …1777 Eng. dial.
 
GRINDING – nouns
– SCRANCH a sharp, grinding noise; the noise made by crunching anything …1881 Eng. dial.
grinding – verbs 
– SCRINGE to creak; to make a grinding, grating sound; to crackle, as ice when it gives to the tread …1853 Ireland
 
GRINDSTONE – nouns
– GRINDING ROCK a grindstone …1913 Amer. dial.
– GRINDLESTONE a grindstone …1899 Amer. dial.
– GRIND ROCK a grindstone …1895 Amer. dial.
 
GRIP – nouns
– FANG † a capture, a catch; also, a tight grasp, a grip …a1400-50
– HANDFAST † firm hold or grip with the hands …1545
– TAIL HOLD a firm grip …1874 Amer. dial.
– YOKE a grip, a grasp, a hold …1892 Sc.
grip – verbs 
– BECLIP † to lay hold of, to seize upon, to grip; to catch, to overtake …c1380
– HANG BY THE EYELIDS * to hang by a very slight hold; to have a loose grip …1587
– NEIVE to catch with the hands, to pinch, to grip …1824 Sc.
– NEVEL to grip, to squeeze, to pinch with the fingers; to feel by pinching or prodding, sometimes in an indecent sense …1788 Sc. 
– TACKLE to grip, to lay hold of …E19 sl.
– WHITE-KNUCKLE to grip something so tightly through fear or tension that one’s knuckles whiten …1977 colloq.
– YOKE to attack; to grip, to seize; to tackle; to meddle with; to fight; to engage in, to dispute …1775 Sc.
 
GRIPING – person
– SCRAPE-ALL † a miserable wretch or griping fellow; a miser …a1790
 
GRIPPING – adjectives
– FAST † gripping, tenacious …c1510
 
GRITTY – adjectives
– GREETY gritty, full of grit …B1900 Eng. dial.
 
GROAN – nouns
– HEART-GROAN a groan from the heart, a groan of deep sympathy …Bk1902 Eng. dial. 
– YOAN a groan …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
groan – verbs
– QUERK to grunt, to groan; to grumble …1746 Eng. dial.
– QUIRK to grunt, to groan; to grumble …1746 Eng. dial.
– VENT * to give, heave, or utter a groan, sigh, etc. …1602 rare or poetical
 
GROANING – adjectives
– GEMENT † groaning, lamenting …1656
 
GROCER – person
– AROMATOPOLA a seller of spices, a grocer, a druggist …Bk1708
– BADGER 1. one who keeps a small shop where groceries and provisions are sold …1856 Eng. dial.
2. a wholesale grocer; one who buys and sells in batches …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CABBAGE-GELDER a greengrocer or market-gardener …1866 sl.
– FIGGINS a grocer …c1870 colloq.
– FIGS a grocer …c1870 colloq.
– KAIL-SELLER, KALE-SELLER a greengrocer; one who sells vegetables …1792 Sc.
– KAIL-WIFE, KALE-WIFE a woman who sells vegetables and herbs; a female greengrocer …1563 Sc.
– LACHANOPOLIST †* a greengrocer; a seller of herbs …1656
– LACHANOPOLL †* a greengrocer …1623
– SAUCE MARKETER a market gardener or greengrocer …Bk1860 Amer. dial.
– SAUCE-MAN one who deals in vegetables; a greengrocer, or other dealer in market produce …1837 US 
– SPLIT FIG a grocer …L17 sl.
– TREACLE-TRAMPER a contemptuous name for a grocer …1930 Sc.
– VEGETABLE JOHN a Chinese greengrocer …1902 Aust. sl.
 
GROCERIES – nouns
– BADGE a small shop where groceries and provisions are sold, generally on credit …1885 Eng. dial.
– HANDBAG a paper bag for bringing groceries home from the store …1966 Amer. dial.
– PACKAGE a paper bag for groceries …1967 Amer. dial.
 
GROCERY STORE – nouns
– PAD OF DRY SCARFS a grocery store …1940s US Black & Southern sl.
 
GROGGY – adjectives
– PUNCH-DRUNK groggy, dazed, or dizzy for any reason; mentally or emotionally exhausted, esp. from a series of failures or personal misfortunes …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– PUNCHY punch-drunk …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
 
GROIN – nouns
– GUNGE an irritation of the groin area …Amer. sl.
– LANK the groin; the flank; the hip-joint …1678 Eng. dial.
– LUNK the groin; the flank; the hip-joint …1678 Eng. dial.
 
GROOM – person
– ABBATIS a steward of the stables, a groom …Bk1775
– GINNY a groom in a horseracing stable …1952 US sl.
– HELPER a person employed to assist in some kind of work; an assistant, a servant; specifically, a groom’s assistant in a stable …1686
– JACK-BOY † a boy employed in menial work – a stable-boy, groom or postillion; one who rides one of a carriage’s leading horses rather than riding on the box…1573 
– MAFOO a groom; hence, a coachman …Bk1910 Anglo-Chinese
– MOZO a male servant or attendant; a groom; a labourer …1811 chiefly Latin American
– PAD-GROOM * a groom who attends to a pad (a horse for ordinary riding, a saddle horse); a keeper or manager of horses …1743
– PALFRENER † a man having charge of horses; a groom …1490
– PALFRENIER † a man having charge of horses; a groom …c1489
– PALFRER † a man having charge of horses; a groom …1301
– PALFREYMAN a man having charge of horses, a groom …1297
– PALFREYOUR † a man having charge of horses; a groom …1300
– SWIPE a groom or stable-boy …1929 US sl.
– SADDLE-NAG † a stable-boy; a groom …1646
– VARLET a man or lad acting as an attendant or servant; a menial, a groom …1456 now arch.
– VARLETTO † a man or lad acting as an attendant or servant; a menial, a groom …1598
 
GROPE – verbs
– CRAWL to grope and fondle a woman …sl.
– FAM to feel, to handle; to grope a woman …M18 sl.
– FATHOM ABOUT †* to try what the arms will take in; to grope about …a1300
– SCRAVVLE to scramble, to scrawl; to grope with the hands …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCRAWM to scramble awkwardly; to grope about with outstretched arms; to sprawl; to spread or stretch out in a straggling manner …1895 Eng. dial.
– STROKE to grope …Bk1904 sl.
– THRUMBLE to fumble, grope …B1900 Eng. dial.
– THRUMMIL to handle, esp. to handle overmuch or awkwardly; to fumble, to grope; to tie up or fasten awkwardly …Bk1905 Sc.
 
GROPING – adjectives
– FRISKING petting or groping …20C US sl.
groping – nouns 
– BIT OF CALICO sexual groping …M19 US sl.
– LING-GRAPPLING groping or feeling a woman …19C Brit. sl.
– NEVEL a groping, prodding, or poking with the fingers, in an indecent sense …1964 Sc. 
– THRUMBLE the act of handling overmuch or of groping or fumbling …Bk1905 Sc.
 
GROSS – adjectives
– EGREGIOUS remarkable in a bad sense; gross, flagrant, outrageous, extravagant, excessive …1573
– LARGE † of speech, etc.: free, unrestrained; in bad sense, lax, licentious, improper, gross …c1374
– MINGIN(G) smelly, disgusting, ugly, horrid, putrid, gross …playground sl.
– RANK gross, highly offensive or loathsome; in later use esp. grossly coarse or indecent …a1300
– REASTY bad-tempered; also, gross, obscene …1825 Eng. dial.
gross – person 
– FUSTILUGS † a gross, fat, unwieldy person, especially a woman; a slovenly woman that smells rank; a person with a sour,  forbidding aspect; a dirty child; a term of abuse…1607 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GAUNCH a gross or obnoxious person …1954 US college sl.
– GROSSER a gross or unattractive person …1979 Amer. student sl.
– PORKNELL †* one as fat as a pig; a fat, gross person …c1400
 
GROSSLY – adverbs
– EGREGIOUSLY grossly, monstrously, shamefully …a1555
 
GROTESQUE – adjectives
– FANTASTICAL † having the appearance of being devised by extravagant fancy; eccentric, quaint, or grotesque in design, conception, construction, or adornment …1599
– GROTTY ugly, dirty, or offensive; displeasing; disgusting; grotesque, shocking …1964 Amer. sl.
grotesque – nouns  (includes GROTESQUENESS) 
– BABERY † grotesque ornamentation in architecture and books; grotesque absurdity …c1384
– BABOONERY † grotesque ornamentation …1383
– CREEPSHOW horrible or grotesque; used to describe a situation or person that fits the bill …Brit. sl.
– FANTASTICALITY eccentricity, grotesqueness, oddity …1592
– MARMOSET † a grotesque figure in a building …1687
– PUNCHINELLO a grotesque or absurd thing 
– SAUCE-CROON a ridiculous or grotesque object …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TANTILEIRUM a big grotesque object or erection …1827 Sc.
– UFRONGIE a grotesque object; a person of forbidding aspect …Bk1905 Sc.
– UFRUNGIE a grotesque object; a person of forbidding aspect …Bk1905 Sc.
– UG an object of disgust; a bad or grotesque appearance; a person of disagreeable, disgusting manners …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
grotesque – person
– FLIBBERTIGIBBET a person resembling the character so called in Scott’s ‘Kenilworth’: a person of grotesque appearance and restless manners; an impish-looking, mischievous, and flighty urchin …1826
– FRIGHT a person or thing of a shocking, grotesque, unkempt, or ridiculous appearance …1751 colloq.
– GUY a grotesque-looking, ill-dressed, ugly, or ridiculous person, esp. an old man; hence, a person who is an object of ridicule or derision; broadly, a fool …1823 Amer. sl.
– MUPPET a retarded, incapacitated or grotesque person; generally applied to hospital inmates, mentally deranged prisoners, or to unattractive teenagers by their peers …Brit. sl.
– PUNCHINELLO a grotesque or absurd person …1669
 
GROUCHINESS – nouns
– MILL DAYS days of moodiness, gloominess, and grouchiness …1946 Amer. dial.
 
GROUCHY – adjectives
– GRUNTY irritable, grouchy …1892 Amer. dial.
– OUT OF ONE’S GEARS † out of sorts; irritable, grouchy …a1700
grouchy – person 
– CRAB a grouchy, stingy person …Bk1914 criminals’ sl.
– CRAB PATCH a grouchy person …Bk1942 US sl.
– FAT APPLE a grouchy person …Bk1942 US sl.
– FRUMP an old woman with one or more of the following qualities: primness, wrinkles, slatternliness, gossipiness, grouchiness, or a holier-than-thou attitude …19C
– GROUCH-BOX an irritable or grouchy person; a scolder; a mean, bad-tempered person; one who always finds fault; a complainer …1960 Amer. dial.
– GROUCH-POT an irritable or grouchy person; a scolder; a mean, bad-tempered person; one who always finds fault; a complainer …1968 Amer. dial.
– GRUMBLE BRAIN a grouchy person …Bk1942 US sl.
– GRUNT (derogatory) an ill-tempered, grouchy person; a mean, bad-tempered person …1968 Amer. dial.
 
GROUND – adjectives
– EARTHLY † existing or living in or on the ground …1593
– FALSE † of ground, a foundation, etc: treacherous, insecure …1590
– QUAGGY of ground: that shakes under foot; full of quags; boggy, soft …1610
– SCRIMPY of ground: crackling with frost …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
ground – nouns
– CARPET the grass, the ground …1897 Amer. sl.
– DAISY-QUILT the earth, the ground …1848 Ireland
– DECK the floor, the ground …1836 sl., orig. US
– GRASS the ground …1816 sl.
– GROUNDSIDE the ground; a ground assignment …1976 Amer. military aviation usage
– PENNY the ground …20C rhyming sl. (Penny a Pound)
– PENNY A POUND the ground …20C rhyming sl.
– SAFE the ground …1992 UK rhyming sl. (safe and sound)
– SAFE AND SOUND the ground …1992 UK rhyming sl.
– SCARP a bare piece of ground …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCLEEBERIE a piece of ground, esp. one of little arable value …1911 Sc.
– SCLIBBERIE a piece of ground, esp. one of little arable value …1911 Sc.
ground – verbs
– POP AIR to leave the ground …1992 Amer. sl.
 
GROUNDHOG – nouns
– BULL-BEGGAR the woodchuck, the groundhog …1969 Amer. dial.
– GOPHER a nickname for the groundhog or woodchuck …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOPHER RAT the groundhog or woodchuck …1969 Amer. dial.
– GROUND CHUCK a groundhog …1967 Amer. dial.
– HEDGEHOG a groundhog …1950 Amer. dial.
– MONACK a woodchuck, a marmot, a groundhog …1666 Amer. dial.
– MONAX a woodchuck, a marmot, a groundhog …1743 Amer. dial.
– MONK a woodchuck, a marmot, a groundhog …1961 Amer. dial.
– MOONACK a woodchuck, a marmot, a groundhog …1876 Amer. dial.
– MOO-NECK a woodchuck, a marmot, a groundhog …1967 Amer. dial.
– MOONOX a woodchuck, a marmot, a groundhog …1805 Amer. dial.
– PIG a marmot; a groundhog …1968 Amer. dial.
– WEATHER HOG a groundhog or woodchuck, esp. one designated to predict the weather on Groundhog Day …1886 Amer. dial.
– WHISTLE HOG a marmot; the woodchuck; a groundhog …1965 Amer. dial.
– WHISTLE PIG a marmot; the woodchuck; a groundhog …1923 Amer. dial.
– WHISTLER a marmot; a groundhog; the woodchuck …1880 Amer. dial.
– WHISTLING PIG a marmot; the woodchuck; a groundhog …1923 Amer. dial.
 
GROUNDHOG DAY – nouns
– BEAR DAY Groundhog Day (the black bear looks for his shadow, not the groundhog) …1932 Amer. dial.
 
GROUP – nouns (for a group of people, animals, etc., see COMPANY)
– BANG a group, a crowd, a great number …1727 Sc. & Amer. dial.
– BEND † an organized company of men; a band; a party, a faction; a gang; a company …1475 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
– BOUNDARY a collection, a group, as of people …1939 Amer. dial.
– CANALLY a rabble, a mob, a crew …1708 Sc.
– DAD’S ARMY the Home Guard (1940-1945); hence, any grouping of older men with a united purpose; gently derogatory…1968 UK sl.
– DINGLE a group, a gathering …Bk1900 Sc.
– GANG any social group (no criminal overtones) …L16
– GROUPLET a little group …1837
– KAPOODLE a group; a crowd …1915 Amer. dial.
– LYANCE † a group of persons related to or allied with another …c1380
– MOB a company or group of associates …E19 sl.
– OUTLAY the crowd, the lot; a large group of people at a public gathering …1909 Amer. dial.
– PACK AND BOODLE a crowd, a group …1950 Amer. dial.
– PARCEL † a small part, company, collection, or assemblage of persons, animals, or things; a group, lot, stet; a drove, flock, herd …1588 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– PARROCK a group of people, animals, or things closely packed or huddled together; a bustling, stirring crowd, a mob; a conglomeration of objects …1813 Sc.
– PASSEL a group of people, animal, or things; an indefinite, usually large, number or quantity …1835 Amer. dial.
– PIP, SQUEAK, AND WILFRED a group of three things …1920 Brit. sl.
– QUINCURY †* a body of five men …1632
– QUOTITY a certain number of individuals, etc. …1837
– SCHOOL a troop or pack of people; an assembly; a swarm, a great number …1851 Sc.
group – person
– DAD the oldest member of a group …World War II Amer. sl.
– ONE OF THE CHAPS a member of one’s own gang or group …1950s UK criminals’ sl.
– TEAMER a member of a team or group …1934
– TEAMMAN a member of a team or group …1954
group – verbs 
– GANG to act or move as a group …1910s US sl.
group – phrases 
– IN CAHOOTS acting as a group, usually used to suggest a conspiracy …1862 sl., orig. US
 
GROUSE – nouns
– BIRBECK the call of the moorcock or grouse …1876 Sc.
– BLUE HOOTER the blue grouse …Bk1913 Amer. dial.
grouse – interjections 
– QUEE-BECK! the cry of grouse, when startled …1901 Sc.
 
GROVE – adjectives
– NEMOPHILOUS * fond of frequenting woods or groves, or dwelling in them …1860
– NEMORAL * pert. to or living in groves or woods …1656
– NEMORIVAGOUS * wandering in woods or groves …1721
– NEMOROSE * full of woods or groves; growing in groves …1721
– NEMOROUS * full of woods, groves, or trees; woody …1623
grove – nouns 
– BARROW a grove, copse, dingle …1795 Eng. dial.
– BERWE † a grove, a shady place …c890
– BLUFF a clump or grove of trees growing in open country …1796 Amer. dial.
 
GROVEL – verbs
– ARSEHOLE CRAWL to grovel unashamedly; to play the sycophant …L19 sl.
– ARSEHOLE CREEP to grovel unashamedly; to play the sycophant; to toady …L19 sl.
– ASSHOLE to grovel, to submit or behave obsequiously …1940 Amer. sl.
 
GROVELLING – adverbs
– GROVELLINGWISE † in a grovelling manner …1561
grovelling – person (includes GROVELLER)
– DUST-WORM † a ‘worm of the dust’, a mean, despicable, or grovelling person; a term of reproach …1621 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– EARTHWORM a mean or grovelling or servile person; a covetous, grasping person; a miser; a sordid wretch …1594
– FACE-THE-CLARTS † a low, plausible sneak; a mean, grovelling fellow …1868 Sc.
– GROVELING †* a groveller …1708
  
GROW – verbs
– ACCRESCE † to increase, to grow up …1637
– ACCRUE † to grow, to grow up …1604
– ECHE † to grow …1565
– EDIFY † to take form, to grow; also, to prosper, to achieve success …a1400
– EKE † to increase, to grow …1535
– RAMP to grow rapidly; of plants: to grow luxuriantly …1820 Eng. dial.
– RAPPLE UP to grow quickly and rankly; used of humans and vegetation …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RAX to grow …1773 Sc.
– ROPPLE UP to grow quickly and rankly; used of humans and vegetation …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– THEE † to thrive, to prosper; to grow …1794 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– THRAW † to make rapid growth, esp. used of young people …Bk1905 Sc.
– THRODDEN to thrive; to grow, to increase; to improve by care or cultivation …1641 Eng. dial.
– UMBEGROW † to grow round, to overgrow …a1300
– VEGETATE † to cause to grow; to stimulate growth or development in; to animate, to quicken …1620
 
GROWING – adjectives
– ACCRESCENT growing continuously, ever increasing …1753
– ADOLENT †* growing, adolescent …c1420
– RAMPING tall; quickly or luxuriantly growing …1821 Eng. dial.
– RAXING growing,  increasing …1892 Sc.
– VEGETATE † endowed with vegetable life; growing as plants …1574
growing – nouns 
– THRIFT growing pains experienced by young people …1790 Eng. dial.
growing – person 
– BRAIRD a young growing fellow …Bk1911 Sc.
 
GROWL, GROWLING – adjectives
– BEARISH rough, rude, and uncouth. growling, surly …1744
– GROWLSOME inclined to growl …1882
– GROWLY subject to moroseness or ill temper expressed in growls …c1920 colloq.
growl, growling – nouns 
– GROWLERY 1. a growling, rumbling, or grumbling …1830
2. a place to ‘growl’ in; jocularly applied to a person’s private sitting room …1852
– GURL † a growl …1755 obs. exc. Sc.
– GURR a growl, a snarl …1814 Sc.
– HABBER † a snarl or growl; the act of snarling or growling like a dog …1804 Sc.
– OGGANNITION †* snarling, growling, grumbling …1625
– RASING † growling …c1440
– YIRR the growl of a dog …Bk1905 Sc.
growl, growling – person
– GIRNER a growling, snarling person …1854 Sc.
– YARRER † a person or dog that growls or snarls …1611 Eng. dial.
growl, growling – verbs 
– ARR of dogs: to snarl, to growl …1768 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BRUZZ † to growl as a bear (only used in vbl. noun ‘bruzzing’) …1693
– GARRE † to growl, to snarl; to chatter, to chide; to chirp, to twitter …1382
– GIVE A STEADY ONE to growl and curse …Amer. World War I sl.
– GURL † to rumble, to growl …c1380 obs. exc. Sc.
– GURR to growl, to snarl …1858 Sc.
– HABBER to snarl; to growl; to make an inarticulate sound; to gobble, as of turkeys …1903 Sc.
– HUBBER to snarl, to growl; to make an inarticulate sound; to gobble, as of turkeys …1903 Sc.
– MARB to growl or grumble; to complain; to condemn unceasingly …1936 Amer. dial.
– NARR † of a dog: to snarl, to growl …1509 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RASE † to be furious, to rage; of dogs: to growl or bark in rage …a1300
​- ROIN † to growl …LME
– WAFFLE † to bark as a small dog; to yap, to yelp, to growl; to bark in a suppressed manner …1698 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– WEFFLE to bark as a small dog; to yap, to yelp, to growl; to bark in a suppressed manner …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WHAFFLE † to bark as a small dog; to yap, to yelp, to growl; to bark in a suppressed manner …1698 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– WHEFFLE to bark as a small dog; to yap, to yelp, to growl; to bark in a suppressed manner …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– YAGGER of an animal: to growl threateningly …1901 Amer. dial.
– YAR † to snarl or growl as or like a dog …1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– YARR † to snarl or growl as or like a dog …1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– YIRR to snarl or growl as a dog …1820 Sc.
 
GROWN – adjectives
– OPEN-GROWN grown in the open air or ground …1894
 
GROWN-UP – adjectives
– MAN-BIG grown to manhood …1880 Ireland & Sc.
– MAN-GROWN mature, grown-up, adult …1883 Sc.
– MAN-MUCKLE at the full stature of manhood, fully grown …1812 Sc.
– MUCKLE grown-up, adult …1882 Sc.
– WOMAN-GROWN having reached womanhood; grown-up …1865 Amer. dial.
– WOMAN-MUCKLE grown up to be a woman, having arrived at womanhood …1898 Sc.
 
GROWTH – adjectives
– WANTON profuse in growth, luxuriant, rank …1590 poetic
growth – nouns
– ACME † the period of full growth, the flower or full-bloom of life …1620
– ELATION †* growth …c1420
– SHORT GROWTH failure of growth in a child …1965 Amer. dial.
– VUXTER increase in weight, the putting on of flesh, growth …1914 Sc. 
growth – verbs 
– PROPERATE † to quicken the growth of …1675