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Webster 1913 Edition
Grubble
Grub′ble
,Verb.
T.
& I.
[Freq. of
grub
, but cf. grabble
.] To feel or grope in the dark.
[Obs.]
Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Grubble
GRUB'BLE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
grubble
grubble
English
Verb
grubble (third-person singular simple present grubbles, present participle grubbling, simple past and past participle grubbled)
- (obsolete) To feel or grope in the dark.
- 1704, John Dryden, Poetical Miscellanies, volume 5, London, translation of Amores by Ovid, page 28:
- When all depart, when Complements are loud, / Be sure to mix among the thickest Crowd: / There I will be, and there we cannot miss, / Perhaps to Grubble, or at least to Kiss.
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