groper
/ˈɡɹoʊpɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Agent noun of grope: one who gropes.
noun
An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially one who performs inspections on passengers.
American usage
Example Sentences
- "[T]he Hand muſt likevviſe act its part, and concur therein [with the eye], tho' not to touch it [the fruit] roughly upon the Tree (nothing is more offenſive to me than thoſe Gropers, vvho, to gather one according to their Mind, vvill ſpoil a hundred by the violent impreſſion of their Unskillful Thumb) but I vvould have the Hand play its part in the manner I ſhall explain hereafter."
- "Everybody knows that there are big groper in the Gulf of Carpentaria, but those that joined Norm Phantom on his journeys were the ones nobody else had ever seen."
Etymology
Etymology tree English grope Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English groper From grope + -er.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡɹoʊpɚ/
- British English: /ˈɡɹoʊpə/
Usage
- American usage
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
baldchin groper
bass groper