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語源 1

From 中期英語 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. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Griping; tenacious; gripping.
2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Grasping; greedy; snatchy; mean; niggardly; avaricious, covetous.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Sprained.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 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 (plural gripples)

1. A ditch; a drain.

語源 3

From grip +‎ -le.

名詞

gripple (plural gripples)

1. (obsolete, rare) A hook.
2. (obsolete, rare) A grasp; a grip.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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 (third-person singular simple present gripples, present participle grippling, simple past and past participle grippled)

1. (transitive, rare) To grasp.