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gruft

gruft noun: the particles of soil that are spattered up onto grass by the rain.

Noun

gruft (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialectal) The particles of soil that are spattered up onto grass by the rain.
    • a gruft that adheres to the grass in wet weather

Words formed from gruft

Questions about gruft

What does gruft mean?
Gruft means the particles of soil that are spattered up onto grass by the rain.
What part of speech is gruft?
Gruft is a noun.

Words near gruft in the dictionary

  1. gruffly
  2. gruffness
  3. gruffnesses
  4. gruffs
  5. gruffy
  6. gruft
  7. grufted
  8. gruftier
  9. gruftiest
  10. grufty
  11. Gruger

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