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griple

griple is the obsolete form of gripple.

Meaning of gripple

Adjective

gripple (comparative more gripple, superlative most gripple)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) Griping; tenacious; gripping.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) Grasping; greedy; snatchy; mean; niggardly; avaricious, covetous.
    • Still as he rode, he gnasht his teeth to see
      Those heapes of gold with griple Covetyse1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) Sprained.

See all 7 meanings of gripple

Forms of griple

comparativemore griple
superlativemost griple

Questions about griple

What is griple the obsolete form of?
Griple is the obsolete form of gripple.

Words near griple in the dictionary

  1. griphopith
  2. griphopiths
  3. griping
  4. gripingly
  5. gripings
  6. griple
  7. gripless
  8. griplessness
  9. gripman
  10. gripmen
  11. gripment

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