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Grippie vs Gripple - What's the difference?

grippie | gripple |

As nouns the difference between grippie and gripple

is that grippie is (informal) a grip; something used to take hold, or to reduce friction while gripple is a ditch; a drain or gripple can be (obsolete|rare) a hook.

As an adjective gripple is

griping; tenacious; gripping.

As a verb gripple is

(rare) to grasp.

grippie

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) A grip; something used to take hold, or to reduce friction.
  • * 2004 , Jeff Ishaq, Treo Fan Book: Your Brain on Silicon
    • Rubber grippies , partially visible on the right of the case above and below the hinge, keep it from sliding out of your hand.
  • * 2008 , Molly G. Shane, Rumored Legacy (page 62)
    • I crocheted chenille socks and put little grippies on the bottom.
  • * 2012 , Joseph Labrecque, Adobe Edge Quickstart Guide
    • To tear a panel out of the main application window and create a floating panel, simply click upon the grippies (the textured area of the panel tab) next to an anchored panel's name.
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    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)