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Definition gripple

Etymology 1

From Middle English gripel, from Old English gripol, gripul (“able to grasp much; capacious”), from Proto-Germanic *gripulaz (“grasping, rapacious”), equivalent to grip +‎ -le.

Adjective

gripple (comparative more gripple, superlative most gripple)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Griping; tenacious; gripping.
2. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Grasping; greedy; snatchy; mean; niggardly; avaricious, covetous.
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Sprained.

Etymology 2

From Middle English gryppel, from Old English *gripel, *gr?pel, diminutive of Old English grep, gr?pe (“furrow, ditch, drain”), equivalent to grip +‎ -le (diminutive suffix). Cognate with German Low German Grüppel (“ditch”).

Noun

gripple (plural gripples)

1. A ditch; a drain.

Etymology 3

From grip +‎ -le.

Noun

gripple (plural gripples)

1. (obsolete, rare) A hook.
2. (obsolete, rare) A grasp; a grip.

Etymology 4

From grip +‎ -le (frequentative suffix).

Verb

gripple (third-person singular simple present gripples, present participle grippling, simple past and past participle grippled)

1. (transitive, rare) To grasp.

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