gripple
/ˈɡɹɪpəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Still as he rode, he gnasht his teeth to see Those heapes of gold with griple Covetyse"
- "It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless […]"
- "Ne ever Artegall his griple strong / For any thing wold slacke, but still upon him hong."
- "'If owt comes to Mulvaaney 'long o' you, I'll gripple you, clouts or no clouts on your ugly head, an' I'll draw t' throat twistyways, man. See there now.'"
Etymology
From Middle English gripel, from Old English gripol, gripul (“able to grasp much; capacious”); equivalent to grip + -le.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- British usage
- Obsolete
- Transitive verb
Inflected Forms
more gripple (comparative)
most gripple (superlative)
grippal (alternative)
griple (alternative)
grippill (alternative)
gripples (plural)
gripples (present, singular)
grippling (participle, present)
grippled (participle, past)
grippled (past)