groomhood

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noun

The state, quality, or condition of being a groom; groomdom.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

noungroomhood (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state, quality, or condition of being a groom; groomdom.

    [...] and those women who are joined to them in marriage, long to see Brother Knechtel before the blush of groomhood wears off his cheerful countenance, [...]

    1929, The Sleeping Car Conductor, volumes 12-13, page 25
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    He need not reside in a room, but only in a bunk, and a bunk need not be rated for the relief of the poor. We talk about manhood suffrage, but what about groomhood suffrage?

    1899, “THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES: FOURTH SERIES”, in parliamentary debates, volume LXXII, page dccxxi

    As he reverts to groomhood, there enters in haste Adolesco himself from the secret corridor, who still has barely presence of mind to thank his impersonator, and they might have got into a discussion of the gelding's off rear pastern problem, [...]

    1985, Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - Volume 9, Issues 10-13 - Page 59

    Some social scientists (Altekar, 1962; Aziz, 1983; Srinivas, 1984) attribute the increasing prevalence of dowry to the concept of groomhood being drastically changed from the normal eligible bachelor to a fancy product.

    1991, The Indian Journal of Social Work, volume 52, page 205

    And besides, Vergil had already been some while ago made free of the Eleusinian bridehood and the groomhood, a mystagogue was he, of that and of other mysteries, perhaps lesser known, if not, who shall say: [...]

    2012, Avram Davidson, The Scarlet Fig

Origin

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