grout

See also: Grout

English

Grout being applied.

Alternative forms

• grewt, groute, grut (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɹaʊt/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ɡɹʌut/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

Noun

grout (countable and uncountable, plural grouts)

1. A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
2. (archaic) Coarse meal; groats.
3. (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Dregs, sediment.
   • 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     grouts of tea

4. (UK, obsolete) A kind of beer or ale.

Related terms

• groat
• grits
• gruel

Translations

mortar used between tiles

• Bulgarian: фуга (bg) f (fuga)
• Czech: zálivková malta f, spárovací hmota
• Dutch: voegmortel m, voegspecie f
• Finnish: saumalaasti, saumauslaasti
• French: enduit de jointement (fr), coulis (fr) m
• German: Fugenmörtel m
• Hungarian: fuga (hu)
• Italian: malta (it), boiacca, impasto (it) cemento sabbia acqua
• Japanese: グラウト (ja)
• Norwegian: injiseringsmørtel m, sementvelling m
• Polish: fuga (pl) f
• Portuguese: rejunte (pt) m
• Romanian: chit (ro) n, mortar de rostuire n
• Russian: (жи́дкий) раство́р (ru) m (rastvór), затирка (ru) f (zatirka)
• Spanish: fragüe (es) m, rejunte (es) m, lechada (es) f

coarse meal

• Bulgarian: грис m (gris)
• Dutch: grout n
• German: Grieß (de) m
• Italian: pietrisco di cava
• Norwegian: (sediments) bunnfall n, (malt) gryn n, grøpp (no) n
• Russian: крупа́ (ru) f (krupá)
• Spanish: sémola (es) f

dregs

• Bulgarian: утайка (bg) f (utajka)
• Dutch: sediment (nl) n
• German: Satz (de) m
• Polish: osad (pl) m
• Russian: оса́док (ru) m (osádok)
• Spanish: sedimento (es) m
• Swedish: sump (sv) c (of coffee)

Verb

grout (third-person singular simple present grouts, present participle grouting, simple past and past participle grouted)

1. To insert mortar between tiles.

   I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.

   • 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27:

     * Stitching and grouting fractures in masonry, insertion of date marker tabs for monitoring.

2. To affix with mortar.
   • December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut.

Translations

insert mortar between tiles

• Bulgarian: фугирам (fugiram)
• Czech: spárovat (cs), vyspárovat pf
• Dutch: voegen (nl)
• French: jointoyer (fr)
• German: verfugen (de)
• Hungarian: fugáz (hu)
• Italian: rivestire di malta, imboiaccare
• Luxembourgish: fouen
• Polish: fugować impf, zafugować pf
• Portuguese: rejuntar (pt), aplicar rejunte
• Russian: затира́ть (ru) impf (zatirátʹ)

Anagrams

• Rutog

Dutch

Noun

grout ? (uncountable)

1. grout

Middle English

Noun

grout

1. Alternative form of growte