Noun: groat
| Singular | groat |
| Plural | groats |
Sample Sentences
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The Widdow that hath but a pan of braſſe,
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And ſcarſe a houſe to hide her head,
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Sometimes no penny to buy her bread,
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Muſt pay her Landlord many a groat,
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Or twil be puld out of her throat: [1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I:]
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The needy groom, that never finger'd groat,
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Would make a miracle of thus much coin … [c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:]
Nouns inflected like groat
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 grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-West Germanic *grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą, related to *greutą. More at grit, grout. See: Middle English Nouns '
grot', Old English Nouns '
grot'.
Verbs referencing "groat"
Icelandic Nouns
grautur.