grobian
/ɡɹˈoʊbiən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[B]eware of men who love not fly leaves neither regard margins, but write notes over the latter, and light their pipes with the former. […] To such fellows it matters not that they make a book dirty and greasy, cutting the pages with their fingers, and holding the boards over the fire till they crack. All these slatternly practices, though they destroy a book as surely as the flames of Caesar's soldiers at Alexandria, seem fine manly acts to the grobians who use them."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *krewp- Proto-Indo-European *krewp-o-s Proto-Germanic *hreubazder.? Old High German grob Middle High German grob German grob Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānus German Grobianus German Grobianbor. English grobian Borrowed from German Grobian (“brute”).