grobian

See also: Grobian

English

Noun

grobian (plural grobians)

1. (dated, derogatory) A coarse, uncouth, uncivilized fellow, perhaps violent.
   • 1892, Andrew Lang, The Library, second edition, page 41–42:

     [B]eware of men who love not fly leaves neither regard margins, but write notes over the latter, and light their pipes with the former. […] To such fellows it matters not that they make a book dirty and greasy, cutting the pages with their fingers, and holding the boards over the fire till they crack. All these slatternly practices, though they destroy a book as surely as the flames of Caesar's soldiers at Alexandria, seem fine manly acts to the grobians who use them.

Anagrams

• Borgian, Nobriga

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Grobian, from grobianus, the Latinisation of grob (“coarse”), probably with relation to the name Jan. Compare with dumrian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡruːbɪɑn/
• Rhymes: -ɑn

Noun

grobian m (definite singular grobianen, indefinite plural grobianer, definite plural grobianene)

1. (derogatory) A coarse, uncouth, uncivilized fellow, perhaps violent.

Synonyms

• råtamp

References

• “grobian” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “grobian” in The Ordnett Dictionary

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Grobian, from grobianus, the Latinisation of grob (“coarse”), probably with relation to the name Jan. Compare with dumrian.

Noun

grobian m (definite singular grobianen, indefinite plural grobianar, definite plural grobianane)

1. (derogatory) a coarse, uncouth, uncivilized fellow, perhaps violent

Synonyms

• råtamp

References

• “grobian” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.