grone

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See also: gröne and grönĕ

English

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Verb

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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[1], 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

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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grone

  1. Alternative form of greyn

Etymology 2

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Verb

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grone

  1. Alternative form of gronen

Etymology 3

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Noun

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grone

  1. Alternative form of gron

Spanish

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Etymology

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Back slang for negro.

Adjective

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grone m or f (masculine and feminine plural grones)

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Noun

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grone m (plural grones)

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Further reading

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  • grone”, in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española