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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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GROTTLY, adj. Friable, crumbly.Abd. 1951 Huntly Express (6 July):
If the weather keeps dry for a period the rain of a week ago will have made the grottly clods a bittie safter an' the neeps easier to hoe.

[Variant form of crotly, id., s.v. Crottle. See G, 6.]

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