grouty
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of grouty
1825–35; grout to grumble, sulk, of uncertain origin ( cf. grouse 2, grouch) + -y 1
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Stale meat will make broth grouty and bad tasted, and fat meat is wasted.
From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner
At heart Old Rocks was tender as a child, but he had a way of spluttering and growling that made him seem grouty and cross-grained.
From Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Burt L. Standish
Then it was that the grouty, taciturn, obstinate trader, so unpopular in ordinary times, showed the stuff he was made of.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
The portrait of the grouty old Doctor himself has a solidity of impast like Shakespeare's Falstaff, and the grave-digger, who has survived from colonial times, carries us back involuntarily to the burial scene in "Hamlet."
From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns
He then subsided, but was grouty all the balance of the day.
From In and Out of Rebel Prisons by Lieut. A.
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