groaty
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Made or consisting of groats.
Example Sentences
- "“Pigs are groaty,” Blair said. Haldane sat on the hearth between Owen and the tree. "People say that about pigs, but it's not true. A pig's cleaner than a hound's tooth.""
- "[…] the girls begin by providing mild challenges regarding Ellen's action of staring at one boy while going with another. Hanna comments, “That was groaty” (gross), and Natalie reminds Ellen that she is going with Craig."
- "“Daddy, that's gross!” “Yeah, it is. Anyway, no firearms when we got here.” He gestured to Kellen. “Would you try to start the truck?” [...] “Daddy, the spark plugs are groaty. What would happen if you took them out and cleaned them?”"
Etymology
From groat + -y; and also continuing Middle English groti, grooti (“muddy, slimy”), from Old English grotiġ (“earthy”), from Old English grot (“piece, fragment, particle, atom”). Influenced by Middle English grout (“coarse meal”). Related to grit, gritty, and greaty.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more groaty (comparative)
groatier (comparative)
most groaty (superlative)
groatiest (superlative)
grotty (alternative)
groatie (alternative)
grottie (alternative)