gropery

== English == === Etymology === From grope +‎ -ery. === Noun === gropery (plural groperies) (uncommon) Groping; the act of, or an instance of, groping. 1991 (printed), Thomas Twining, A Selection of Thomas Twining's Letters, 1734-1804: The Record of a Tranquil Life, Edwin Mellen Press, page 257: To look over your MS will be pure amusement & gratification to me; & it will be kindness to furnish me with so pleasant a relief from my own faggings, & book-huntings, & groperies, & pokeries, & sweepings, & cobweb-catchings. 1993, Kenneth Branagh (screenplay and film notes), William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, W. W. Norton & Company (→ISBN), page 27: She finds this unspeakably funny and barks herself off into the darkness whilst the gropery of her partner goes on apace. Exterior / CHAPEL YARD / Night / Drinking Fountain BEATRICE charges into view, […] === Anagrams === Groyper