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Back-formation from grawls, a variant of graulse, mistaken as a plural. Ultimately, graulse is a variant of English grilse.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Back-formation from grawls, a variant of graulse, mistaken as a plural. Ultimately, graulse is a variant of English grilse.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.