grabbler
n. grabble的变形
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释义与例句
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1.
A person who grabbles.
A person who grabs or grasps for something.
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2.
A person who grabbles.
One who harvests food (such as tubers or peanuts) by digging it up with the hands.
美国a goober-grabbler (dated slang term for a person from the U.S. state of Georgia, literally, one who harvests peanuts by hand)
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3.
A person who grabbles.
A person who catches fish by feeling with the hand.
美国2002, Bil Lepp, Inept, Impaired, Overwhelmed: Tall Tales from West Virginia and Beyond, Charleston, WV: Quarrier Press, “Grabbled,” p. 66, We were about to land our first monster catfish by hand. We were grabblers!
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4.
A tool for grabbling.
An implement used for grabbling (digging up) tubers.
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A tool for grabbling.
An implement used to extract bodies from the water.
废旧1767, The Annual Register, cited in Notes and Queries, 15 June, 1878, p. 478, After diligent search had been made in the river for the child to no purpose, a twopenny loaf with a quantity of quicksilver put into it was set floating from the place where the child, it was supposed, had fallen in […] the loaf suddenly tacked about and swam across the river, and gradually sunk near the child, when both the child and loaf were immediately brought up with grabblers ready for that purpose.
相关短语
词源
From grabble + -er.
来源：wiktionary