groak

English

Etymology

From Scots groak, growk.[1][2]

Verb

groak (third-person singular simple present groaks, present participle groaking, simple past and past participle groaked)

  1. (typically of domestic animals) To stare at people who are eating in the hope that they will offer to share their food

References

  • "groak" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
  1. ^ “groak n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
  2. ^ “growk, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

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