grone

See also: gröne and grönĕ

English

Verb

grone (third-person singular simple present grones, present participle groning, simple past and past participle groned)

  1. Obsolete spelling of groan
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
      Dead is Sansfoy, his vitall paines are past, Though greeved ghost for vengeance deepe do grone: He lives, that shall him pay his dewties last,[*] 440 And guiltie Elfin blood shall sacrifice in hast.

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Middle English

Noun

grone

  1. Alternative form of greyn

Verb

grone

  1. Alternative form of gronen

Noun

grone

  1. Alternative form of gron

Spanish

Etymology

Back slang for negro.

Adjective

grone m or f (masculine and feminine plural grones)

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Noun

grone m (plural grones)

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Further reading

  • grone”, in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
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