grummel

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/ˈɡɹʌməl/

noun

Mud, sediment.

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Meanings

noun
  1. Mud, sediment.
  2. in pluralThe dregs.

    Gowselling in the grummels he wakes the plaintiff night with pitfalls turning left to right, high noon on the wintry ocean, high noon all sides aboard and aloft to starboard.

    1936, Henry Miller, “Into the Night Life …”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 179

Origin

Unknown.

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