Grabbler
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person who grabbles.; A person who grabs or grasps for something.
"[He] once called diggers greedy gold grabblers."
- 2 A person who grabbles.; One who harvests food (such as tubers or peanuts) by digging it up with the hands. Southeastern, US
"a goober-grabbler (dated slang term for a person from the U.S. state of Georgia, literally, one who harvests peanuts by hand)"
- 3 A person who grabbles.; A person who catches fish by feeling with the hand. Southeastern, US
"[…] Darl had to grabble for her so I knew he could catch her because he is the best grabbler even with the mules in the way […]"
- 4 A tool for grabbling.; An implement used for grabbling (digging up) tubers. Barbados, Southeastern, US
"[…] then Bobtail he got his bull-tongue plow and his grabbler and pretty soon there was his potatoes."
- 5 A tool for grabbling.; An implement used to extract bodies from the water. obsolete
"[…] four Boats, and several Men in them, with Ropes and Grablers, searched the Thames a great part of Sunday, using all Opportunities to find the dead Body;"
Example
More examples"[He] once called diggers greedy gold grabblers."
Etymology
From grabble + -er.
Related phrases
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.