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grobian

grobian noun: a coarse, uncouth, uncivilized and possibly violent fellow.

Noun

grobian (plural grobians)

  1. (dated, derogatory) A coarse, uncouth, uncivilized and possibly violent fellow.
    • [B]eware of men who love not fly leaves neither regard margins, but write notes over the latter, and light their pipes with the former. […] To such fellows it matters not that they make a book dirty and greasy, cutting the pages with their fingers, and holding the boards over the fire till they...1892, Andrew Lang, The Library, second edition, page 41-42

grobian meaning in Urdu

grobian in Urdu

بدھو, پینڈو

Forms of grobian

pluralgrobians

Origin of grobian

Borrowed from German Grobian (“brute”).

Words formed from grobian

Questions about grobian

What does grobian mean?
Grobian means a coarse, uncouth, uncivilized and possibly violent fellow.
What is grobian in Urdu?
Grobian in Urdu is بدھو, پینڈو. See Grobian meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is grobian?
Grobian is a noun.
What is the plural of grobian?
The plural of grobian is grobians.

Words near grobian in the dictionary

  1. Grobanite
  2. Grobanites
  3. grobble
  4. Grobe
  5. Grobes
  6. grobian
  7. grobianism
  8. grobians
  9. Grobiņa
  10. Grobs
  11. Groby

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grobian (page history and authors); grobian (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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