Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Someone who waits at meal-times with the expectation of getting something to eat. · A wistful look by a child on any article greatly desired.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo stare or look fixedly at someone; esp. of a child or dog in anticipation of receiving food. · To look at someone with a watchful or suspicious eye.
Unknown. Adapted into English from the Scots groak, growk with an unchanged meaning; groak in Scotland and growk in Ulster. The earliest recorded English usage of this term is as grouk in 1808 (see sense 2).
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- Borrowed-form mentiongroak,growksco
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