grot
Americannoun
noun
noun
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
The Book begins with another transition in place; Ulysses passes from the sea-shore, with its haven, grot, and olive-tree up into the mountain, to the hut of Eumæus.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
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