grot

noun3

1. •
   (UK, slang) Any unpleasant substance or material.
2. •
   (UK, slang) A miserable person.
3. •
   (literary) A grotto.

   • She took me to her elfin grot, / And there she wept, and sigh'd full sore, / And there I shut her wild wild eyes / With kisses four. — 1819