grobian

G2R1O1B3I1A1N1

noun

A coarse, uncouth, uncivilized and possibly violent fellow.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

noungrobian (plural grobians)

plural grobians

  1. datedderogatoryA coarse, uncouth, uncivilized and possibly violent fellow.
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    [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.

    1892, Andrew Lang, The Library, second edition, page 41-42

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*krewp-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*krewp-o-s
  3. Proto-Germanic*hreubazder.?
  4. Old High Germangrob
  5. Middle High Germangrob
  6. Germangrob
  7. GermanGrobianus
  8. GermanGrobian
  9. Englishgrobian

Borrowed from German Grobian (“brute”).

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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