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noun ɡrɒtɡrɑt mass nounBritish informal Something unpleasant, dirty, or of poor quality. 〈英，非正式〉讨厌的东西；脏东西；劣质品；垃圾 they watch endless grot on telly Example sentencesExamples - His capacity to find grot and grime is quite astounding.
- Because we were the generation that had been raised on a diet of 1970s dreariness, of safety-pinned punks and urban grot.
- They were routinely betrayed by being sold substandard produce, grot wrapped in pap.
- From his letter last week he seemed to suggest that he would rather have the insane hubbub and grot of the capital transported to the Lakes so he can continue to feel at home.
- And as a fully grown adult I have been known to put off going to the loo for hours, even days, at a time if there has been the merest hint of grot anywhere near the pot.
Synonyms mud, muck, mire, ooze, silt, alluvium, dirt, slime, slush, slurry
Origin1960s: back-formation from grotty. Rhymesallot, begot, Bernadotte, blot, bot, capot, clot, cocotte, cot, culotte, dot, forgot, garrotte (US garrote), gavotte, got, hot, jot, knot, lot, Mayotte, motte, not, Ott, outshot, plot, pot, rot, sans-culotte, Scot, Scott, shallot, shot, slot, snot, sot, spot, squat, stot, swat, swot, tot, trot, undershot, Wat, Watt, what, wot, yacht OriginEarly 16th century: from French grotte, from Italian grotta, via Latin from Greek kruptē 'vault, crypt'. nounɡrätɡrɑt British informal Something unpleasant, dirty, or of poor quality. 〈英，非正式〉讨厌的东西；脏东西；劣质品；垃圾 they watch endless grot on TV Example sentencesExamples - Because we were the generation that had been raised on a diet of 1970s dreariness, of safety-pinned punks and urban grot.
- His capacity to find grot and grime is quite astounding.
- From his letter last week he seemed to suggest that he would rather have the insane hubbub and grot of the capital transported to the Lakes so he can continue to feel at home.
- They were routinely betrayed by being sold substandard produce, grot wrapped in pap.
- And as a fully grown adult I have been known to put off going to the loo for hours, even days, at a time if there has been the merest hint of grot anywhere near the pot.
Synonyms mud, muck, mire, ooze, silt, alluvium, dirt, slime, slush, slurry
Origin1960s: back-formation from grotty. OriginEarly 16th century: from French grotte, from Italian grotta, via Latin from Greek kruptē ‘vault, crypt’. |