1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Grueller, subs. (common).—A knock-down blow; a settler; a floorer
(q.v.).
Grumble-guts, subs. (popular).—An inveterate croaker. Also
Grumble-gizzard.
Grumbles. To be all on the grumbles, verb. phr. (popular).—To be
discontented; cross; on the snarly-yow (q.v.).
Grumbletonian, subs. (common).—A pattern of discontent: one ever on the
grumble. [Grumbleton (during the reigns of the later Stuarts) = an
imaginary centre of discontent; hence, Grumbletonian, a nickname of the
County party, distinguished from the Court, as being in opposition.]
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew. Grumbletonians, malecontents, out of
Humour with the Government, for want of a Place, or having lost
one.
1705–7. Ward, Hudibras Redivivus, vol. I., pt. 1, p. 24 (2nd Ed.).
But all the grumbletonian throng Did with such violence rush along.
1773. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, Act 1. Now, if I pleased, I
could be so revenged upon the old grumbletonian.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue. Grumbletonian, s.v., a discontented
person.
1849–61. Macaulay, Hist. of Eng., ch. xix. Who were sometimes
nicknamed the grumbletonians, and sometimes honoured with the
appellation of the County party.
Grummet, subs. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see
Monosyllable.
Grumpy (or Grumpish), adj. (colloquial).—Surly; cross; angry.
1840. Mrs. Trollope, Michael Armstrong, ch. vi. If you blubber or
look grumpish.
1859. Sala, Twice Round the Clock, 3 a.m., par. 13. Calling you a
‘cross, grumpy, old thing,’ when you mildly suggest that it is very
near bed-time.
1868. Miss Braddon, Trail of the Serpent, bk. IV., ch. i. A grumpy
old deaf keeper, and a boy, his assistant.
1883. Punch, 19 May, p. 230, c. 2. They all looked grumpy and down
in the mouth.
Grundy, subs. (old).—A short fat man; a forty-guts (q.v.).—See Mrs.
Grundy.
1563. Fox, Acts and Monuments (London, 1844), iii., 1104. For that
he being a short grundy, and of little stature, did ride commonly
with a great broad hat.
Grunter, subs. (old).—1. A pig; a grunting-cheat (q.v.). In quot. 1652
= pork. For synonyms, see Sow’s Baby.
1656. Brome, Jovial Crew. Here’s grunter and bleater, with
tib-of-the-buttry.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew. Grunter, s.v. A sucking pig.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue. Grunter, s.v.
1841. Comic Almanack, p. 266. And the squeaking grunter is loose on
the green.
1847–50. Tennyson, Princess, v. 26. A draggled mawkin, That tends
her bristled grunters in the sludge.