Lexicographical Neighbors of Grewed
Literary usage of Grewed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"A silly action, such as only a green, inexperienced, young person would be guilty
of. HP grewed. Adhered to the pot in boiling. ..."
2. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"... (2), also grewed (1). (2) part. adj. ingrained with dirt—a term ... Cf.
grewed (2). See Grime. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"The chile grewed at its medicine.' Grewsome, adj. frightful; anything that makes
one shudder. Grey, sb. the grey linnet. Grin (corruption of grain), ..."
4. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"... and thunk. lit hastened to woo her, and sweetly he wooed, For his love grew
until to a mountain it grewed, And what he was longing to do then he doed. ..."
5. The Amateur Emigrant: The Siverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"... “grewed” there. But he mentioned, with evident pride, that he differed from
all the scientific people who had visited the spot; and he flung about such ..."
6. Short Story Classics (American) by William Henry Harrison Murray, Robert Grant, Virginia Tracy, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Robert William Chambers, George Ade, John Habberton, Hallie Erminie Rives, William Patten, Charles Heber Clark, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, P.F. Collier & Son (1905)
"He sank back exhausted. "Oon marster be glad to see me?" he asked presently in
pathetic simplicity. "You know we grewed up to- gerr? ..."
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