2. (American thieves’).—Coffee.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Grueller, subs. (common).—A knock-down blow; a settler; a floorer (q.v.).
Grumble-guts, subs. (popular).—An inveterate croaker. Also Grumble-gizzard.
Grumbles. To be all on the grumbles, verb. phr. (popular).—To be discontented; cross; on the snarly-yow (q.v.).
Grumbletonian, subs. (common).—A pattern of discontent: one ever on the grumble. [Grumbleton (during the reigns of the later Stuarts) = an imaginary centre of discontent; hence, Grumbletonian, a nickname of the County party, distinguished from the Court, as being in opposition.]
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew. Grumbletonians, malecontents, out of Humour with the Government, for want of a Place, or having lost one.
1705–7. Ward, Hudibras Redivivus, vol. I., pt. 1, p. 24 (2nd Ed.). But all the grumbletonian throng Did with such violence rush along.
1773. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, Act 1. Now, if I pleased, I could be so revenged upon the old grumbletonian.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue. Grumbletonian, s.v., a discontented person.