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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.
To feel in the dark; to grovel. [Not much used.]

Definition 2024


grubble

grubble

English

Verb

grubble (third-person singular simple present grubbles, present participle grubbling, simple past and past participle grubbled)

  1. (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.