gripple

[ grip-uhl ]

adjective

, British Dialect.

1. miserly; avaricious.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gripple¹

before 1000; Middle English grip ( p ) el, Old English gripul; gripe

Example Sentences

Far from the dehumanizing shed of automatons, the Gripple factory floor is bright, open, and beautiful.

From Inc

The first factory, in Sheffield, England, was part of a growing multinational engineering firm called Gripple.

From Inc

Heber's generosity has been nobly praised by Scott, who contrasts the hard-heartedness of other bibliophiles, those "gripple niggards" who preferred holding on to their treasures, with his friend's careless liberality.

From Project Gutenberg

The "gripple niggards" might have pleaded feebly in their own behalf that they could not all afford to spend, like Heber, a hundred thousand pounds in the purchase of books; and that an occasional reluctance to part with some hard-earned, hard-won volume might be pardonable in one who could not hope to replace it.

From Project Gutenberg

The astonishing narrowness and illiberality of the lessons contained in some of those books is inconceivable by those whose studies have not led them that way, and would almost induce one to subscribe to the hard censure which Drayton has passed upon the mercantile spirit,— "The gripple merchant, born to be the curse Of this brave isle."

From Project Gutenberg