Tourist vs Grockel - What's the difference?
tourist | grockel |
Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist , and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
(derogatory) One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement.
(sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.
Outsider from the English West Country, especially tourist.
* "I also only learned this year that people dont use the word grockel , akker, and dimpsey in other places." [http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Culture/Question423700.html]
* "So naturally because of this over-hyped nonsense the roads into Portsmouth were chock-a-block with grockels ." [http://www.madhousebeyond.com/?mode=docview&view=southseashow]