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say it: GRIN-duhl
grindle is a noun meaning "primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America". It is pronounced /ˈɡɹɪndəl/ — GRIN-duhl. It carries one recorded sense.
primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grindle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.