Grockle (noun)
grok-el
A holidaymaker, especially one visiting a resort in Devon or Cornwall.
An invented word, originally a fantastic creature in a children’s comic, adopted arbitrarily and popularized by the film The System (1964).
Example sentences
“You can tell they are grockles by the way they’re dressed!”
Mackle (verb) mak-ul to blur, as from a double impression in printing First used in 1585–95. A variant of earlier macle, makle; earlier macule (from the Latin macula, “spot, blemish”).…
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