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grot

American  
[grot] / grɒt /

noun

Chiefly Literary.
  1. a grotto.


grot 1 British  
/ ɡrɒt /

noun

  1. slang rubbish; dirt

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

grot 2 British  
/ ɡrɒt /

noun

  1. a poetic word for grotto

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of grot

1500–10; < French grotte < Italian grotta; see grotto

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Ron Ford, 75, a volunteer litter picker in Torfaen, said roadside litter was a "constant problem" and certain "grot spots" required repeated cleaning.

From BBC May 6, 2026

August’s little elfin grot was a space about the size of a one-car garage.

From Salon Jun. 16, 2019

Grace Dent recently noted in The Guardian how the winking sauciness of Blind Date has morphed into the straight-talking grot of Take Me Out, and a similar thing has occurred in divadom.

From The Guardian Mar. 22, 2011

He sate him lone in a coral grot, At the flowing in of the tide; When ebbed the billow, there was not, Save coral, aught beside.

From Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems by Walter De la Mare

But a grot, a penny, and a halfe penny.

From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by John Awdeley

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