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  • noun Plural form of grockle.

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Examples

  • There will be a chunk of people during the nicer weather month who will base themselves here for doing exciting things in the surrounding area and I expect that some folk swing by on tours of the grand old cities of the north but you don't find the place knee deep in grockles.

    Why us? 2009

  • There will be a chunk of people during the nicer weather month who will base themselves here for doing exciting things in the surrounding area and I expect that some folk swing by on tours of the grand old cities of the north but you don't find the place knee deep in grockles.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • He had also consumed too much brandy, had allowed himself to get upset too easily when the music of a particular taverna (they had tried several) wasn't just exactly to his liking, and had complained bitterly of "rowdy, drunken grockles," when in fact the holiday-makers were as yet quite sober and extremely well behaved.

    Psychosphere Lumley, Brian 1984

  • The squawks and grockles of everyday life in the Flock were cut off as though the formation were a giant knife, and eight thousand gull-eyes watched, without a single blink.

    Jonathan Livingstone Seagull Bach, Richard, 1936- 1972

  • The squawks and grockles of everyday life in the Flock were cut off as though the formation were a giant knife, and eight thousand gull-eyes watched, without a single blink.

    Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970

  • The squawks and grockles of everyday life in the Flock were cut off as though the formation were a giant knife, and eight thousand gull-eyes watched, without a single blink.

    Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970

  • No doubt they could close down all hotels and erect toll parriers on all roads and railways into the county, to keep the grockles out, but have they got any plans for alternative sources of income?

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Well done Cornwall, you don't want the English grockles money, fine.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Sometimes you've just got to spell it out for those gormless grockles!

    Holiday snaps a-go-go - Uncle N's MySpace Blog | Nemesis To Go 2010

  • They treated certain types of people with absolute disdain, and referred to them as ‘plebs’ or ‘grockles’, and the police were always called ‘plod’.

    Sexism, vandalism and bullying: inside the Boris Johnson-era Bullingdon Club Harriet Sherwood 2019

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