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Webster 1913 Edition


Grig

Grig

(grĭg)
,
Noun.
[Cf. Sw.
kräk
little creature, reptile; or D.
kriek
cricket, E.
cricket
.]
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A cricket or grasshopper.
[Prov. Eng.]
(b)
Any small eel.
(c)
The broad-nosed eel. See
Glut
.
[Prov. Eng.]
2.
Heath.
[Prov. Eng.]
Audrey.
As merry as a grig
[etymology uncertain]
, a saying supposed by some to be a corruption of “As merry as a Greek; ” by others, to be an allusion to the cricket.

Webster 1828 Edition


Grig

GRIG

,
Noun.
A small eel; the sand ell.
1.
A merry creature.
2.
Health.

Definition 2024


grig

grig

English

Noun

grig (plural grigs)

  1. little creature;
    1. A cricket or grasshopper.
      • 1926, Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist (Ch. 5):
        The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig.
    2. An insect in the family Prophalangopsidae, related to katydids
    3. Any small eel.
    4. The broad-nosed eel. See glut
  2. heath.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Audrey to this entry?)

Verb

grig (third-person singular simple present grigs, present participle grigging, simple past and past participle grigged)

  1. (transitive) To irritate or annoy.