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grout en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɡɹæɔt/ (Australia)
• /ɡɹaʊt/ (UK, US)
• /ɡɹʌut/ (Canada)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Coarse meal; groats.
3. (archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable) Dregs, sediment.
   • grouts of tea 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
4. (UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable) A kind of beer or ale.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
grewt		alternative	lexicographic
grut		alternative	lexicographic
groute		alternative	lexicographic
grouts	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Relateds

gruel · groat · grits

Translations (47)

cs zálivková malta (mortar used between tiles) · no sementvelling (mortar used between tiles) · it boiacca (mortar used between tiles) · ru крупа́ (coarse meal) · ru затирка (mortar used between tiles) · de Grieß (coarse meal) · ro chit (mortar used between tiles) · bg грис (coarse meal) · es rejunte (mortar used between tiles) · it impasto cemento sabbia acqua (mortar used between tiles) · nn sementvelling (mortar used between tiles) · pl fuga (mortar used between tiles) · es sémola (coarse meal) · it pietrisco di cava (coarse meal) · hu fuga (mortar used between tiles) · ja グラウト (mortar used between tiles) · nl voegmortel (mortar used between tiles) · nn injiseringsmørtel (mortar used between tiles) · es lechada (mortar used between tiles) · fi saumalaasti (mortar used between tiles) · no injiseringsmørtel (mortar used between tiles) · de Satz (dregs) · nl grout (coarse meal) · cs spárovací hmota (mortar used between tiles) · fr enduit de jointement (mortar used between tiles) · ru оса́док (dregs) · no bunnfall (coarse meal) · pl osad (dregs) · fi saumauslaasti (mortar used between tiles) · id nat (mortar used between tiles) · ru раство́р (mortar used between tiles) · no fugemasse (mortar used between tiles) · es sedimento (dregs) · de Fugenmörtel (mortar used between tiles) · nn fugemasse (mortar used between tiles) · it malta (mortar used between tiles) · nl sediment (dregs) · es fragüe (mortar used between tiles) · no grøpp (coarse meal) · sv sump (dregs) · pt rejunte (mortar used between tiles) · fr coulis (mortar used between tiles) · ro mortar de rostuire (mortar used between tiles) · no gryn (coarse meal) · bg фуга (mortar used between tiles) · bg утайка (dregs) · nl voegspecie (mortar used between tiles)

grout en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɡɹæɔt/ (Australia)
• /ɡɹaʊt/ (UK, US)
• /ɡɹʌut/ (Canada)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To insert mortar between tiles.
   • * Stitching and grouting fractures in masonry, insertion of date marker tabs for monitoring. 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27:
   • I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.
2. (transitive) To affix with mortar.
   • The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut. December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
grewt		alternative	lexicographic
grut		alternative	lexicographic
grouting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
groute		alternative	lexicographic
grouts	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
grouted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
grouted	Tense=Past		lexicographic

Deriveds

groutless · regrout · grouter · grouty · grout float · groutlike

Translations (17)

fr jointoyer (insert mortar between tiles) · hu fugáz (insert mortar between tiles) · pl fugować (insert mortar between tiles) · de verfugen (insert mortar between tiles) · it imboiaccare (insert mortar between tiles) · ru затира́ть (insert mortar between tiles) · lb fouen (insert mortar between tiles) · it rivestire di malta (insert mortar between tiles) · pt aplicar rejunte (insert mortar between tiles) · nl voegen (insert mortar between tiles) · nb fuge (insert mortar between tiles) · ru zalivátʹ žídkim stroítelʹnym rastvórom (insert mortar between tiles) · cs spárovat (insert mortar between tiles) · pt rejuntar (insert mortar between tiles) · pl zafugować (insert mortar between tiles) · bg фугирам (insert mortar between tiles) · cs vyspárovat (insert mortar between tiles)