grippleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English gripel, from 古期英語 gripol, gripul (“able to grasp much; capacious”); equivalent to grip +‎ -le.

別の表記

• grippal, griple
• grippill (Scotland)

形容詞

gripple (comparative more gripple, superlative most gripple)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Griping; tenacious; gripping.
2. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Grasping; greedy; snatchy; mean; niggardly; avaricious, covetous.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 1, canto 4:

     Still as he rode, he gnasht his teeth to see
     Those heapes of gold with griple Covetyse

   • 1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead

     It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless […]

3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Sprained.

語源 2

From Middle English gryppel, from 古期英語 *gripel, *grēpel, diminutive of 古期英語 grep, grēpe (“furrow, ditch, drain”), equivalent to grip +‎ -le (diminutive suffix). Cognate with German Low German Grüppel (“ditch”).

名詞

gripple (複数形 gripples)

1. A ditch; a drain.

語源 3

From grip +‎ -le.

名詞

gripple (複数形 gripples)

1. (obsolete, rare) A hook.
2. (obsolete, rare) A grasp; a grip.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.2:

     Ne ever Artegall his griple strong / For any thing wold slacke, but still upon him hong.

語源 4

From grip +‎ -le (frequentative suffix).

動詞

gripple (三人称単数 現在形 gripples, 現在分詞 grippling, 過去形および過去分詞形 grippled)

1. (transitive, rare) To grasp.