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English
Verb
grone (third-person singular simple present grones, present participle groning, simple past and past participle groned)
- Obsolete spelling of groan
1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:Dead is Sansfoy, his vitall paines are past, Though greeved ghost for vengeance deepe do grone: He lives, that shall him pay his dewties last,[*] 440 And guiltie Elfin blood shall sacrifice in hast.
Anagrams
- Egnor, Goren, Groen, Negro, Norge, Ogren, Rengo, Rogen, ergon, genro, goner, negro, ornge, reong
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
grone
- Alternative form of greyn
Etymology 2
Verb
grone
- Alternative form of gronen
Etymology 3
Noun
grone
- Alternative form of gron
Spanish
Etymology
Back slang for negro.
Adjective
grone m or f (masculine and feminine plural grones)
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Noun
grone m (plural grones)
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Further reading
- “grone”, in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española