Grobian

This scene recalls vividly the encounter between Just and the landlord in the first act of “Minna,” the passage in which Just continues to assert that the landlord is a “Grobian.”

Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

Be sure that he who is a Grobian in his own company, will, sooner or later, become a Grobian in that of his friends.”

Westward Ho! 2007

Porcupine was quite a Grobian but he was endowed, I was impressed, with a better brain than I. "He made us mix into the trouble, and slipped behind and contrived to have the paper publish the story.

Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891

Be sure that he who is a Grobian in his own company, will, sooner or later, become a Grobian in that of his friends. "

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847