putterings, 391-388
laboratory meanwhile, scribbling around the grubble
no detail is too small.
everything
breathing & everything wreckage,
anythting, magnified; but nothing never getting
done
crazy, John! Crazy!
grubble
- Grubble, v [variant of Grabble v., influenced by Grub v. Du. has grobbelen synonymous with grabbelen.]
† 1. intr. and trans. To grope. To grubble up : to scrape together. Obs.
2. intro. = Grub v. 6 b. rare....
Hence Grubble sb., rare, an act of ‘grubbling’.
ex James A. H. Murray, ed., A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles Vol. 4 F and G (1901) : link - Grubbling(s, adv e.An. Also written grublins Suf.¹ In phr. to lay or lie grubbling(s, to lie with the face downwards.
ex Joseph Wright, ed., The English Dialect Dictionary Vol. 2 D-G (1900) : link - grubble†, v, [A var. of gropple, freq. of grope: see grub, v.]
I. intrans. To feel in the dark, or as a blind man; grope.
He looked at the fish, then at the fiddle, still grubbling in his pockets.
Spectator, No. 444.
Be sure to mix among the thickest crowd;
There I will be, and there we cannot miss,
Perhaps to grubble, or at least to kiss.
Dryden, tr. of Ovid’s Amours, I.iv.73.
II. trans. To feel of with the hands.
Thou has a colour;
Now let me roll and grubble thee;
Blind men say white feels smooth, and black feels rough.
Dryden
ex William Dwight Whitney, ed., The Century Dictionary : An Enclopedic Lexicon of the English Language Vol. III (1889, 1895) : link
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