"grockle" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "The origin of the word is uncertain. A derivation has been suggested from the eponymous dragon-like creature in the obsolete The Dandy comic strip \"Jimmy and his Grockle\", based on an earlier strip, \"Jimmy Johnson's Grockle\", in The Rover comic in the 1920s, somehow leading to use in the present sense in the movie The System (1964). It is doubtful that the word's use in the West of England goes back farther than that.\nEric Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English also refers to the film The System but suggests another derivation, that holiday visitors in Torbay were compared to little clowns, and Grock (1880–1959) was a famous clown at the time.\nA more straightforward derivation is 'grackle' an old term for the jackdaw, from the Latin graculus. It is apposite when considering large numbers of visitors noisily flocking to their holiday destinations.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "grockle art"
        },
        {
          "word": "pictures for selling to grockles"
        },
        {
          "word": "grockle bait"
        },
        {
          "word": "cheap arcades"
        },
        {
          "word": "grockle box and grockle shell"
        },
        {
          "word": "caravan"
        },
        {
          "word": "grockle can"
        },
        {
          "word": "a tourist bus"
        },
        {
          "word": "grockle catcher"
        },
        {
          "word": "an easy to reach beach"
        },
        {
          "word": "beauty spot which acts to stop tourists finding other local spots"
        },
        {
          "word": "grockle fodder"
        },
        {
          "word": "fish and chips"
        },
        {
          "word": "grockle nest"
        },
        {
          "word": "a holiday home"
        },
        {
          "word": "second home"
        },
        {
          "word": "grockle-ridden"
        },
        {
          "word": "full of grockles"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Guy Adams, chapter 1, in Torchwood: The House that Jack Built",
          "text": "The grockles were not well served on the Marina of late.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A tourist from elsewhere in the country"
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        "(slang, British, various parts of the West Country) A tourist from elsewhere in the country"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "emmet"
        },
        {
          "word": "overner"
        },
        {
          "word": "similar term used by residents of the Isle of Wight used more to refer to non-natives who have moved to the island to live"
        },
        {
          "word": "work. “I’ve lived here 20 years"
        },
        {
          "word": "but I’m still seen as an overner”"
        }
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        {
          "word": "grockel"
        }
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        "A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English"
      ]
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "grockle art"
    },
    {
      "word": "pictures for selling to grockles"
    },
    {
      "word": "grockle bait"
    },
    {
      "word": "cheap arcades"
    },
    {
      "word": "grockle box and grockle shell"
    },
    {
      "word": "caravan"
    },
    {
      "word": "grockle can"
    },
    {
      "word": "a tourist bus"
    },
    {
      "word": "grockle catcher"
    },
    {
      "word": "an easy to reach beach"
    },
    {
      "word": "beauty spot which acts to stop tourists finding other local spots"
    },
    {
      "word": "grockle fodder"
    },
    {
      "word": "fish and chips"
    },
    {
      "word": "grockle nest"
    },
    {
      "word": "a holiday home"
    },
    {
      "word": "second home"
    },
    {
      "word": "grockle-ridden"
    },
    {
      "word": "full of grockles"
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    },
    {
      "word": "overner"
    },
    {
      "word": "similar term used by residents of the Isle of Wight used more to refer to non-natives who have moved to the island to live"
    },
    {
      "word": "work. “I’ve lived here 20 years"
    },
    {
      "word": "but I’m still seen as an overner”"
    }
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        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "West Country English",
        "en:Tourism"
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          "text": "The grockles were not well served on the Marina of late.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A tourist from elsewhere in the country"
      ],
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      "qualifier": "various parts of the West Country",
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        "(slang, British, various parts of the West Country) A tourist from elsewhere in the country"
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    {
      "word": "grockel"
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