"gropery" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1831, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 553:",
          "text": "State quacks, bills for Popery,\nNot for our merits, Lord, we claim,\nStage-reminiscences, frolics, and fibs,\nExemption from the woe;\nLumps, bumps, gall and scull-gropery,\nWe ask it all in Mercy's name, […]",
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          "ref": "1887, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 47:",
          "text": "What the deuce, then, should make you shrink now, when almost all drudgery, and gropery and pokery is over; when you have plenty of materials to produce, and every step will bring you into a more pleasurable country, […]",
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          "ref": "1969, Morton M. Hunt, The Affair: A Portrait of Extra-marital Love in Contemporary America, Signet Book:",
          "text": "[…] including “party gropery” - the brief surreptitious petting that often goes on in gardens, on balconies, and in kitchens — is analogous to the orgiastic festivals in which married people, in preliterate societies, were permitted a brief period of […]",
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          "ref": "1991 (printed), Thomas Twining, A Selection of Thomas Twining's Letters, 1734-1804: The Record of a Tranquil Life, Edwin Mellen Press, page 257",
          "text": "To look over your MS will be pure amusement & gratification to me; & it will be kindness to furnish me with so pleasant a relief from my own faggings, & book-huntings, & groperies, & pokeries, & sweepings, & cobweb-catchings."
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          "ref": "1993, Kenneth Branagh (screenplay and film notes), William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, W. W. Norton & Company, page 27",
          "text": "She finds this unspeakably funny and barks herself off into the darkness whilst the gropery of her partner goes on apace. Exterior / CHAPEL YARD / Night / Drinking Fountain BEATRICE charges into view, […]"
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        "(uncommon) Groping; the act of, or an instance of, groping."
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          "text": "State quacks, bills for Popery,\nNot for our merits, Lord, we claim,\nStage-reminiscences, frolics, and fibs,\nExemption from the woe;\nLumps, bumps, gall and scull-gropery,\nWe ask it all in Mercy's name, […]",
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          "text": "To look over your MS will be pure amusement & gratification to me; & it will be kindness to furnish me with so pleasant a relief from my own faggings, & book-huntings, & groperies, & pokeries, & sweepings, & cobweb-catchings."
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