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It seems that a grockle is a tourist or incomer to a holiday area.

My friend from Devon always referred to the holiday makers as grockles lol

Yes, that's what the Cornish call the visitors. My Dad lived there and my Sis and BiL live there, but never used this term......seeing that we had been grockles for years before.......

Anne, Vivienne and Sally That is interesting to see it is a term used in Devon and Cornwall. I am sure other areas have words that mean the same thing Hi Paul, I get very bored in the summer holidays, no research to do for my courses, and my family tree at a standstill, so I read all sorts of wierd books. Dee ;-))

My husbands' relations, who belong to Cornwall, call holidaymakers Emmets!! must depend what part you come from lol Mau xx

Hubby is a devonian and always uses the word grockle even though we don't live there now he still uses it and a load of other words from down there. When we lived in Sussex he w2as always using it as it was a seaside town with all the tourists and next week are going back down so we will be the grockles

You're right Maureen, they call them that too.......Emmets more than grockles, have heard both frequently down there......

Hi Mau Strange that. In my dictionary emmet is shown as being Cornish, grockle is shown as a 'generic' term (Non regional) Wonder if any one else can come up with any local words for tourists (try to make them polite please) ;-))))

We get loads of them being the worlds first garden city, mostly Japanese. xxhugxx

must try out that word Dee. we live just outside Canterbury and the place is absolutely heaving with all nationalities. Locals usually refer to them as 'those bloody foreigners'.

Hi Teresa I am guilty of having added to the number of grockles in Canterbury on occassion. When my Other Half used to have foriegn business colleagues over it was one of the places I took them. That and Chatham Dockyard Guess I will see my fair share of them at work this afternoon as well ;-))

it's mainly the youngsters that annoy people Dee. They stand in very large groups and make it a nightmare to enter shops. Still, they always look so happy and excited to be there, especially outside the Cathedral. I expect we annoy them when we visit their countries and just stand about.

Oh yes we were invaded by grockles when I lived in Bournemouth, and we now get a lot in Bath (lots of groups of foreign students mainly).

We have Weejies here, last count a couple of thousand. I refuse to go into town any later than 10am because you can't move.

Must admit I've not come across Weejies Trish, another odd sounding word though isn't it? ;-))

Caulkheads who live on the Isle of Wight call incomers Grockles.

Your right Jim and those that move there to live are call Overlanders Grockles are holidaymakers born and bred are Caulkheads Ann

When my parents lived in Cornwall lots of cars had 'GO home Emmets' written on them. Annie

This thread has evoked thoughts of the past. Grannie Ann i used to have a sticker on my car that read 'I'm not a tourist i live here ' And somewhere i have a record with songs about the Island such as U.D.I for the I.O.W Ann

Here in Morecambe they call tourists grockles. I am originally from Yorkshire and had never heard of crockles before coming here. Pat