grone

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See also: gröne and grönĕ

English

Verb

grone (third-person singular simple present grones, present participle groning, simple past and past participle groned)

  1. 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.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

grone

  1. Alternative form of greyn

Etymology 2

Verb

grone

  1. Alternative form of gronen

Etymology 3

Noun

grone

  1. 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