grone
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
grone (third-person singular simple present grones, present participle groning, simple past and past participle groned)
- 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[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
grone
- Alternative form of greyn
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
grone
- Alternative form of gronen
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
grone
- Alternative form of gron
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back slang for negro.
Adjective[edit]
grone m or f (masculine and feminine plural grones)
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Noun[edit]
grone m (plural grones)
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Further reading[edit]
- “grone”, in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española