grone
English
editVerb
editgrone (third-person singular simple present grones, present participle groning, simple past and past participle groned)
- Obsolete spelling of groan.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I[1], 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.
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editgrone
- Alternative form of greyn
Etymology 2
editVerb
editgrone
- Alternative form of gronen
Etymology 3
editNoun
editgrone
- Alternative form of gron
Spanish
editEtymology
editBack slang for negro.
Adjective
editgrone m or f (masculine and feminine plural grones)
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Noun
editgrone m (plural grones)
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Further reading
edit- “grone”, in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española