Gripper vs Grippe - What's the difference?
gripper | grippe |
a person or thing that something
a cover on the handle of a bicycle, tool, etc, that makes it easier to grip.
(curling) A rubber or other material attached to a curling shoe to improve traction on the ice
(rail transport, slang) a ticket collector
A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
Influenza, the flu.(w)
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*:"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! "