groper
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See also: gröper
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹoʊpɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹoʊpə/
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]groper (plural gropers)
- Agent noun of grope: one who gropes.
- 1693, De La Quintinye [i.e., Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie], “Of Fruit-gardens and Kitchen-gardens. Chapter IV. How to Judge of the Maturity and Goodness of Fruits.”, in John Evelyn, transl., The Compleat Gard’ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-gardens; […], volume II, London: […] Matthew Gillyflower, […], and James Partridge, […], →OCLC, part V, page 86:
- [T]he Hand muſt likevviſe act its part, and concur therein [with the eye], tho' not to touch it [the fruit] roughly upon the Tree (nothing is more offenſive to me than thoſe Gropers, vvho, to gather one according to their Mind, vvill ſpoil a hundred by the violent impreſſion of their Unskillful Thumb) but I vvould have the Hand play its part in the manner I ſhall explain hereafter.
- (US) An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially one who performs inspections on passengers.
Etymology 2
[edit]Variant of grouper.
Noun
[edit]groper (plural gropers)
- (Australia) Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 230:
- Everybody knows that there are big groper in the Gulf of Carpentaria, but those that joined Norm Phantom on his journeys were the ones nobody else had ever seen.
- (New Zealand) hapuku wreckfish (Polyprion oxygeneios)
Derived terms
[edit]- baldchin groper (Choerodon rubescens)
- bass groper (wreckfish; Polyprion americanus, syn. Polyprion moeone)
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]groper m or f
- indefinite plural of grop
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]groper f
- indefinite plural of grop
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