Where does grindster come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

grindster

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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One who grinds (all senses).

"[…] casting her eyes upon him and judging him a better and lustier grindster than her then lover, of whom belike she was weary, determined to beseek him to gallant in the latter's stead."

From Middle English grindestere (“a miller, tool-sharpener”), equivalent to grind + -ster.

grindsters (plural)

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