grig

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dwarf. obsolete
  2. Heath or heather. Shropshire,UK,dialectal
    — The further method of tillage pursued, was to make fallows; and if the season permitted, so that the ground could be cleared and burnt off, to destroy the grig or heath, […]
  3. A cricket or grasshopper.
    — The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig.
  4. A small or young eel.
    — [W]e assembled at one o'clock, at two sat down to dinner, consisting of capital stewed grigs, a dish Mrs Burt was famous for dressing, a large joint of roast or boiled meat, with proper vegetables and a good-sized pudding or pie […] .
  5. Specifically, the broad-nosed eel. See glut.
动词 v.
  1. To irritate or annoy. transitive

词形变化

grigs plural grigs present,singular,third-person grigging participle,present grigged participle,past grigged past

词汇关系

衍生词
lively as a grig merry as a grig

词源

词源 1
The word is often used in the phrase "merry as a grig". The word is of uncertain origin, though various theories have been suggested, such as a corruption of "merry as a cricket" or "merry as a Greek", as in William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Then she's a merry Greek indeed." Johnson suggested that the word originally meant "anything below the natural size" (compare Swedish krik and Scots crick).
词源 2
From Welsh grug, Cornish grig.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Irish griogbor.
English grig
Borrowed from Irish griog.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary