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Grippe vs Gripple - What's the difference?

grippe | gripple |

As verbs the difference between grippe and gripple

is that grippe is while gripple is (rare) to grasp.

As an adjective gripple is

griping; tenacious; gripping.

As a noun gripple is

a ditch; a drain or gripple can be (obsolete|rare) a hook.

grippe

English

Alternative forms

* grip

Noun

(-)
  • Influenza, the flu.(w)
  • *
  • *:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe', but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the '''grippe , and now moaned all day: "''Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir! "

    • Derived terms

    * grippy

    See also

    * catarrh * cold * Spanish fever ----

    gripple

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) gripel, from (etyl) gripol, .

    Alternative forms

    * * * (Scotland)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Griping; tenacious; gripping.
  • Grasping; greedy; snatchy; mean; niggardly; avaricious, covetous.
    • (Spenser)
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
    • It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless
  • Sprained.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gryppel, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ditch; a drain.

    • Etymology 3

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, rare) A hook.
  • (obsolete, rare) A grasp; a grip.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.2:
  • *:Ne ever Artegall his griple strong / For any thing wold slacke, but still upon him hong.

    • Etymology 4

    From .

    Verb

    (grippl)
  • (rare) To grasp.
    • (Webster 1913)