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gringolée

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
gringolee
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of e.g. the ends of a cross: terminating in snakes' heads.

Etymology

From French gringolé (attested since 1644), related to the verb gringoler (and apparently dégringoler, attested in the form desgringueler from 1595), apparently from Middle Dutch crinkelen, from kring (“circle”), from Old Dutch *kring, from Proto-Germanic *kringaz; the semantics are obscure.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

gringolé (alternative) gringoly (alternative) gringolly (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

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Questions

What does gringolée mean?
Of e.g. the ends of a cross: terminating in snakes' heads.
Where does gringolée come from?
It is traced to French.

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