Meaning of grouty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Full of grout(s), that is, sediment.
2. Angry or surly, sulky.
   Northern-US
3. Lowering; threatening to rain or storm.
   Northern-US
4. Turbid as with liquor.

Examples

“[…] the Wash⟳ of the Dung runs into this Pond, and thickens it to that degree, that many have⟳ wondered how the Cattle could drink⟳ such grouty, black, stinking Water, full of Lice, Worms, Bugs, and other Insects.”

“Stew no longer than the meat is thoroughly done to eat⟳, and you will obtain⟳ excellent broth, without depriving the meat of its nutritious succulence : to boil it to rags, as is the common practice, will not enrich your broths, but make⟳ them thick and grouty.”

“How easy to be kind and pleasant: how uncomfortable to be rude and grouty!”

“You better go down to your company, or that long-nosed Englishwoman'll get⟳ even groutier than she is.”

“Amanda was fuming. […] But then, the telltale grappling and stumble step backward—thump—against the wall, which braced them through the ensuing make-out moment, however brief, until the grouty girl could be heard cooing with pleasure.”

“Though I suppose⟳ if you've no one to love⟳ but a grouty old mother, you don't have⟳ the worry⟳ and fear for your menfolk heavy on you, Mercy conceded.”

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