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• grice
  grice

  noun

  a pig, especially a young or suckling pig.
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  Grice

  noun

  H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.

grice

¹ American  

[grahys] / graɪs /

noun

Chiefly Scot.

1. a pig, especially a young or suckling pig.

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Grice ² American  

[grahys] / graɪs /

noun

1. H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.

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grice British  

/ ˈɡraɪs /

verb

1. (intr) (of a railway enthusiast) to collect objects or visit places connected with trains and railways

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noun

1. an object collected or place visited by a railway enthusiast

Other Word Forms

• gricer noun
• gricing noun

Etymology

Origin of grice

1175–1225; Middle English gris < Old Norse grīss pig

Example Sentences

Then we cut to Ukip's leader Lord Pearson, a man straight out of society's top drawer, whose accent is instantly redolent of grouse, or perhaps that should be grice, moors and weekend shooting parties.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2010

Poverty is a comparative thing, and each degree of it is mocked by its "neighbour grice."

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles

Oh, Hoxford was a pleasant plice To many a poet dear, And Saccharissa had the grice In Hoxford to appear.

From New Collected Rhymes by Lang, Andrew

The English "verdigris" is a corruption of vert de grice.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Two other names for the pig are the northern Galt and the Lincolnshire Grice— "Marcassin, a young wild boare; a shoot or grice."

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest