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groper en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡɹoʊpɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈɡɹoʊpə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree English grope Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English groper From grope + -er.

Meanings

1. (agent, form-of) Agent noun of grope: one who gropes.
   form of grope
   • [T]he Hand muſt likevviſe act its part, and concur therein [with the eye], tho' not to touch it [the fruit] roughly upon the Tree (nothing is more offenſive to me than thoſe Gropers, vvho, to gather one according to their Mind, vvill ſpoil a hundred by the violent impreſſion of their Unskillful Thumb) but I vvould have the Hand play its part in the manner I ſhall explain hereafter. 1693, De La Quintinye [i.e., Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie], “Of Fruit-gardens and Kitchen-gardens. Chapter IV. How to Judge of the Maturity and Goodness of Fruits.”, in John Evelyn, transl., The Compleat Gard’ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-gardens; […], volume II, London: […] Matthew Gillyflower, […], and James Partridge, […], →OCLC, part V, page 86:
2. (US) An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially one who performs inspections on passengers.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
gropers	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Deriveds

sandgroper · groyper

groper en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡɹoʊpɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈɡɹoʊpə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Variant of grouper.

Meanings

1. (Australia) Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
   • Everybody knows that there are big groper in the Gulf of Carpentaria, but those that joined Norm Phantom on his journeys were the ones nobody else had ever seen. 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 230:
2. (New-Zealand) hapuku wreckfish (Polyprion oxygeneios)

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
gropers	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Deriveds

bass groper · baldchin groper