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grig
[ grig ]
noun
, Northern British Dialect.
- a cricket or grasshopper.
- a small or young eel.
- a lively person.
grig
/ ɡrɪɡ /
noun
- a lively person
- a short-legged hen
- a young eel
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Word History and Origins
Origin of grig1
1350–1400; Middle English grig, grege; origin uncertain
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Word History and Origins
Origin of grig1
C14: dwarf, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish krik a little creature
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Example Sentences
Hard is her heart as flint or stone,She laughs to see me pale; And merry as a grig is grown,And brisk as bottled ale.
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I drove through that region with my father when I was a young grig—not very full of hope about my woman's future.
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Roy loved and obeyed Polly almost as readily as Peggy, and cavorted off beside her as gay as a grig.
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Grig (greg in Sligo): a boy with sugarstick holds it out to another and says, 'grig, grig,' to triumph over him.
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Pinched for standing-room, the comical old grig laughs and lies down!
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