growlery

plural growleries

1. alternativeAlternative form of Growlery.

   I dare say you have never heard of a growlery. It's a funny word, but it is a very useful, helpful sort of a place.

   1916, Our Young People, page 30

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   Tussy wrote to Lizzy, knowing that Engels would read her the letters in his growlery – as he described his study-sitting room – presided over by the stuffed Right Honourable in his glass case.

   2014, Rachel Holmes, Eleanor Marx: A Life, →ISBN

   'Bearing up, I suppose, Teddy said, although I didn't actually see her. We're at war then? 'I'm afraid so. Come into the growlery, Ted, and have a drink with me.

   2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 103

plural Growleries

1. A place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured.

   "Sit down, my dear," said Mr. Jarndyce. "This, you must know, is the Growlery. When I am out of humour, I come and growl here."

   1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House

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   Hi ! the Howlery ! ho ! the Growlery ! Ha ! the Sniffery, Snarlery, Scowlery ! There we may stay, If we choose, all day; But it 's only a smile that can bring us away.

   1895, St. Nicholas - Volume 22, Part 2, page 1045

   As such, the Growlery again frustrates what Doublass sees as a peculiarly American obsession with pigeonholing things in terms of race.

   2006, Sarah Luria, Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, →ISBN, page 92