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grobian

See also: Grobian

English edit

Etymology edit

German Grobian (“brute”)

Noun edit

grobian (plural grobians)

  1. (dated, derogatory) A coarse, uncouth, uncivilized and possibly violent fellow.
    • 1892, Andrew Lang, The Library, second edition, page 41-42:
      [B]eware of men who love not fly leaves neither regard margins, but write notes over the latter, and light their pipes with the former. […] To such fellows it matters not that they make a book dirty and greasy, cutting the pages with their fingers, and holding the boards over the fire till they crack. All these slatternly practices, though they destroy a book as surely as the flames of Caesar's soldiers at Alexandria, seem fine manly acts to the grobians who use them.

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Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From German Grobian, from grobianus, the Latinisation of grob (“coarse”), probably with relation to the name Jan. Compare with dumrian.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

grobian m (definite singular grobianen, indefinite plural grobianer, definite plural grobianene)

  1. (derogatory) A coarse, uncouth, uncivilized fellow, perhaps violent.

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology edit

From German Grobian, from grobianus, the Latinisation of grob (“coarse”), probably with relation to the name Jan. Compare with dumrian.

Noun edit

grobian m (definite singular grobianen, indefinite plural grobianar, definite plural grobianane)

  1. (derogatory) a coarse, uncouth, uncivilized fellow, perhaps violent

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Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Grobian.

Adjective edit

grobian m or n (feminine singular grobiană, masculine plural grobieni, feminine and neuter plural grobiene)

  1. coarse (about people)

Declension edit

Declension of grobian
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite grobian grobiană grobieni grobiene
definite grobianul grobiana grobienii grobienele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite grobian grobiene grobieni grobiene
definite grobianului grobienei grobienilor grobienelor

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From German Grobian, latinization of grob (“coarse”).

Noun edit

grobian c

  1. grobian, ruffian

Declension edit

Declension of grobian 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative grobian grobianen grobianer grobianerna
Genitive grobians grobianens grobianers grobianernas

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