Noun: grope
| Singular | grope |
| Plural | gropes |
Sample Sentences
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The old man tried to get a quick grope of the young lady on the train.
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Gropes appear to be pieces of iron binding together the inner joint of the fitting, and grope-nails to have been used for fastening these to the wood. [1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 544:]
Nouns inflected like grope
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English gropien, from Old English grāpian, related to grīpan (whence English gripe); compare also grip. See: Old English Nouns '
grāpian'.
Verbs referencing "grope"
English Nouns
grasp, Icelandic Nouns
greip.