gruntling

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I buy cheap and sell dear; another man may sell ye other things, but I enjoy my self; and thou dunghillraker, are thou yet gruntling, I'll make ye hereafter do it for somewhat.

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  1. A young hog. But come, my gruntling, when thou art full fed, Forth to the butchers stall thou must be led. A Book for Boys and Girls (1686), p. 32. (Halliwell.)

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  • I buy cheap and sell dear; another man may sell ye other things, but I enjoy my self; and thou dunghillraker, are thou yet gruntling, I'll make ye hereafter do it for somewhat. —  The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
 

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