"grubble" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From grub + -le, frequentative, but compare grabble.",
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      "form": "grubbles",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "grubbling",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "grubbled",
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        "participle",
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      "form": "grubbled",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1704, John Dryden, Poetical Miscellanies, volume 5, London, translation of Amores by Ovid, page 28",
          "text": "When all depart, when Complements are loud, / Be sure to mix among the thickest Crowd: / There I will be, and there we cannot miss, / Perhaps to Grubble, or at least to Kiss.",
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        "To feel or grope in the dark."
      ],
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          "feel",
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          "grope",
          "grope"
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          "dark",
          "dark"
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        "(obsolete or rare, transitive, intransitive) To feel or grope in the dark."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "fumble"
        },
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          "word": "grabble"
        },
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          "word": "feel around"
        }
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        "intransitive",
        "obsolete",
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "grubble"
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  "etymology_text": "From grub + -le, frequentative, but compare grabble.",
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    {
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "grubbling",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "grubbled",
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      "form": "grubbled",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "To feel or grope in the dark."
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      "word": "fumble"
    },
    {
      "word": "grabble"
    },
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      "word": "feel around"
    }
  ],
  "word": "grubble"
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