Griot vs Grot - What's the difference?
griot | grot |
A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.
* 1995', Françoise Pfaff, ''Sembene, A '''Griot of Modern Times'', in Michael T. Martin (editor), ''Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality ,
* 1997 , Paul Stoller, Sensuous Scholarship ,
* 2003 , Melissa Thackway, Interview I: Adama Drabo, director'', in ''Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film ,
A Haitian dish of fried pork.
(poetic) A grotto.
* 1819 , (John Keats), :
(slang, uncountable) Any unpleasant substance or material.
(slang, countable) A miserable person.
As nouns the difference between griot and grot
is that griot is a west african storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet while grot is porridge.griot
English
(wikipedia griot)Noun
(en noun)page 118,
- Griots' may be the chroniclers of an important family or of a group of people — like the Bambara hunters’ ' griot — or itinerant poets and musicians who extol the praises of the person who has hired them for a special festivity.
page 15,
- When ethnographers are asked to read their works to gatherings of Songhay, elders, they, too, are considered griots .
- Ethnographers, however, usually consider themselves scholars, not griots'. They prepare themselves for their life's work in a manner altogether different from that of the ' griot .
page 183,
- I decided that it would be better for a griot' to take us back into the legend, rather than me, a contemporary man. '''Griots''' have deeply marked me. I already narrated my first film, ''Ta Dona'', in the same way that a ' griot would have.
grot
English
Etymology 1
From , by shortening, or (etyl) grotte.Noun
(en noun)- She took me to her elfin grot , / And there she wept, and sigh'd full sore, / And there I shut her wild wild eyes / With kisses four.