Grun

Scholars explain its origin from the old German word grunen or greinen (to mourn), which was later corrupted into grun (green). ❋ Eileen (2009)

Janjaweed malitia a hunt dem dung raping an a killing village bun dung to de grun man ina numba ten an oval office ❋ Unknown (2007)

They just sink intae the grun, or they just bend or kinna roll roon. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (1997)

His face tells of want and toil; he has slung a shabby old basket over his shoulders, in which he carries his load, and, with a bunch in his hand, he saunters along the street, proclaiming his trade, "Grun-sel, grun-sel, grun-sel!" ❋ Various (N/A)

I wonner the Lord disna open the grun 'to swallow the half o' the folk noo-a-days; for I never heard sic swearin ' ❋ James C. Welsh (N/A)

Wi 'a sab and a curse fell his length on the grun'. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Oh the glaur it wis fylin 'and crieshin' the grun ', ❋ Unknown (1916)

"Wer't nae for thy girning face I would knock the big, winnow the corn, and grun the meal!" ❋ Edwin Sidney Hartland (1887)

'Ay, ay; it's the same auld mill, an' I wat it grun '(ground) bonny meal. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

An 'though she's as guid a cratur as ever lived, the cauld grun' o 'her poverty gaithers the fog o' an ill report. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Aggie an 'me wad help to get mair oot o' the gairden; I wad hae mair time for weyvin '; an' ye wad get a heap for the bit grun 'fra Lick-my loof. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Sae, efter that, whan ance I had gotten a sure houp, a rael grun 'for believin' that I was ane o 'the called and chosen, I jist jined mysel' to them that sud be like them�-for they ca'd them a ' ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

And jist think, Steenie, there's a pictur o 'the bonny man himsel paintit upo' the wa 'o' ane o 'thae places doon aneth the grun'! ' ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

I'll put on my sheen, and rin ye alang the laich grun '! ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

I ha'e got a pole erected for him, o 'about some 150 feet high, on a knowe ahint Mount Benger; and the way the cretur rins up to the knob, looking ower the shouther o' him, and twisting his tail roun 'the pole for fear o' playin 'thud on the grun', is comical past a 'endurance. ❋ Adam White (1848)

"BREAKING NEWS: Budapest Police Caught on Camera Upholding the Law" kun & grun: Godwin's Law: Hungarian Jews got plenty of 'special treatment'in the summer of ❋ Unknown (2010)

After install grun i do not know how to start it. mikewhatever ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was depicted by Jock to step forward to his lordship and tell him to keep himsel 'easy, as Jock was on the grun', and wad be forthcoming at the minute. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Panicula, fKynauon kylhne sp - ed erilh, y peth a dyvo yn hir - grun. ❋ Unknown (1707)