growlery
growlery is the alternative form of Growlery.
Noun capitalized: Growlery
Growlery (plural Growleries)
- A place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured.
- "Sit down, my dear," said Mr. Jarndyce. "This, you must know, is the Growlery. When I am out of humour, I come and growl here."1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House
- Hi ! the Howlery ! ho ! the Growlery ! Ha ! the Sniffery, Snarlery, Scowlery ! There we may stay, If we choose, all day; But it 's only a smile that can bring us away.1895, St. Nicholas - Volume 22, Part 2, page 1045
Forms of growlery
| plural | growleries |
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| plural | Growleries |
Origin of growlery
From growl + -ery.
Questions about growlery
- What does growlery mean?
- Growlery means a place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured.
- What is growlery the alternative form of?
- Growlery is the alternative form of Growlery.
- What part of speech is growlery?
- Growlery is a noun.
- What is the plural of growlery?
- The plural of growlery is growleries.
Words near growlery in the dictionary
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