grimgribber

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From fictional estate Grimgribber in Richard Steele's 1722 play The Conscious Lovers. Used pejoratively as “learned rubbish”.[1]

Noun[edit]

grimgribber (usually uncountable, plural grimgribbers)

  1. A trade jargon, particularly in law.

References[edit]

  1. ^ May, Pete (2012 October 15) The Lost Words: A Feast of Forgotten Words, Their Origins and Their Meanings, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN
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