Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A grotto.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A grotto.
- n. Middle English forms of groat.
Wiktionary
- n. slang, uncountable Any unpleasant substance or material.
- n. slang, countable A miserable person.
- n. A grotto.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Poetic A grotto.
- n. obsolete A groat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small cave (usually with attractive features)
Etymologies
- From grotto, by shortening (Wiktionary)
- French grotte, from Italian grotta; see grotto. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Of all the shaded loveliness it hides in grot and dell!”
“One even has to imagine that the Vatican can turn a blind eye to all manner of murky grot and in times of strife will fling any amount of cash at people to shut them up.”
“For our second year we left the grot-baggy house and took up a less grotty house with just two rooms and had our own private space.”
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“Walking into a grot hole you know: grubby carpets, thin curtains and badly carved-up rooms, I get very excited and see potential everywhere, but when shown the beige-carpeted, cream-walled, taste-free apartments that are supposed to be so easy to envisage yourself living in, I stumble for ideas.”
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“Maybe the shock of the new blinds Kampfner to the grot of the old.”
“Home-shopping firm Grattan has shed over 1,000 jobs today amid claims that their catalogue cannot compete with the vast cornucopia of online grot for the attentions of onanistic teenagers.”
“The map has "before" and "after" photos, customised icons and sometimes some colourful quotes by staff or residents about the particular 'grot spot'.”
“My question is who is paying for the rentamob,they must have a grot to sleep in and money for Big Macs.”
“A hostile brand is awaiting thee, no tender bride in dewy grot.”
“Watching other women and men weave the grotty details of their lives with children (the stuff that makes meanie blogtards post comments like ‘zzzzzzzz’) into fascinating, and sometimes magnificent, tapestries has helped this mother peer through her own grot and find the beauty there.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grot’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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harmonygritz's Cross Words
Words discovered while doing puzzles. Includes puns, e.g. taper vs. tapir.
hodad, hart, avocet, cahier, blackbird, brace, fetor, Bren, Rialto, bijou, liveried, stentor and 64 more...
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Joycean Vocab
You ain't read no English til you read Joyce.
rasher, cygnet, usquebaugh, ephebe, entelechy, kish, caul, vicereine, atelier, daguerreotype, communard, connubial and 99 more...
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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Rare words
Rare words I've come across in my reading.
hortative, tyrophillia, gowpen, parapet, alphamegamia, xerophagy, pyknic, cosmothetic, misarchist, conventicle, equinophobia, abderian and 16 more...
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few, small or little words
pauciloquoys
few, paucity, poco, parvovirus, paraffin, pauper, poor, poverty, depauperate, impoverish, foal, filly and 80 more...
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condiment, tortoise shell, virile, wolverine, chyme, aeons, grotesque, pontiferous, blurb, dais, squiffy, decadent and 88 more...
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