Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Great Britain, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, a nickname for a member of the Country party, as opposed to the Court party.
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Examples
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He evokes a cast of one "awkward booby", one "old grumbletonian", one "tall, trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole" and one obliging girl with cheeks "as red as a pulpit cushion".
She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012
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Now, if I pleased, I could be so revenged upon the old grumbletonian.
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Now, if I pleased, I could be so revenged upon the old grumbletonian.
Act the First 1909
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Now, if I pleased, I could be so revenged upon the old grumbletonian.
She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith 1752
brtom commented on the word grumbletonian
Father-in-law has been calling me whelp and hound this half year. Now, if I pleased, I could be so revenged upon the old grumbletonian.
Goldmith, She Stoops, I
January 8, 2007