grice

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɡɹʌɪs/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct. Scotland
    — This fine Smooth bawson cub, the young grice of a gray
  2. A step or stair. obsolete
    — he stood under the grices
动词 v.
  1. to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting. UK,slang
    — Many people joined the railways because the 'carrot' of a staff pass was a considerable attraction, whether for family travel or to grice at extremely low cost.

词形变化

gricen plural grices plural grise alternative grices present,singular,third-person gricing participle,present griced participle,past griced past grices plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gris, from Old Norse gríss (“male pig; pigling”). Compare Old Dutch gristo, gristio (“boar, wild boar”).
词源 2
Unknown. Possibly from Richard Grice, the first champion trainspotterhttp://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rdU1xtIWJz0C&q=grice+trainspotter&dq=grice+trainspotter&hl=en&sa=X&ei=afhsT5ChFe-R0QWF8K3HBg&redir_esc=y. Alternatively perhaps a humorous representation of an upper-class pronunciation of grouser (“grouse-shooter”)https://web.archive.org/web/20120313071637/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gricer. In either case the derivation could be direct or a back-formation from gricer.
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