A Scottish dialectal and affectionate term for a pig or sow, likely deriving from the grunting sound pigs make.
A Scottish dialectal and affectionate term for a pig or sow, likely deriving from the grunting sound pigs make. It has a folksy, rural character typical of Scots vocabulary for farm animals. The word appears in Robert Burns's poetry and other Scottish vernacular literature, giving it a degree of literary cachet.
The grumphie had broken through the fence again and was rooting around in the vegetable garden.
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(Scotland) A grunting sound.
(Scotland, intransitive) To make a grunting sound.
A word with two related senses. As an adverb it means in a grum (surly or morose) manner. As a Scottish adjective it means turbid, muddy, or troubled — typically used of water or the sky. Both senses share a flavour of murkiness, whether emotional or physical.
(Scotland) A pig, a swine.
(Scotland) A sow .