grig
Americannoun
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a cricket or grasshopper.
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a small or young eel.
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a lively person.
noun
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a lively person
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a short-legged hen
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a young eel
Etymology
Origin of grig
1350–1400; Middle English grig, grege; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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"So that's the game, is it?" crows the dentist, still merry as a grig.
From Time Magazine Archive
Princess Margaret was happy as a grig in her new role as chief godparent,* and Princess Elizabeth herself, rosy-cheeked and radiant once more, was only a little shy about her new motherhood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Happy as a grig over the shift, Pearson said that Bell is giving him a flat guarantee of $20,000 a year more than he now earns.
From Time Magazine Archive
The guest of honor, slight, grey-haired and merry as a grig, shook hands, soft-shoed with a bowler hat and sang Harrigan, That's Me.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a merry little grig of a man, and he babbled on, till I announced my intention of going to bed.
From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John
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