grotesqueries
plural of grotesquery
Source: Wiktionary
Gro*tesqu"er*y, n. [Written also grotesquerie.] [From Grotesque.]
Definition: Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings. "The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top." K. L. Bates.
Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter. George Gissing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 March 2025
(adjective) (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; “suspended matter such as silt or mud...”; “dust particles suspended in the air”; “droplets in suspension in a gas”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
