grice

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ɡɹʌɪs/ Rhymes: -ʌɪs === Etymology 1 === From Middle English gris, from Old Norse gríss (“male pig; pigling”). Compare Old Dutch gristo, gristio (“boar, wild boar”). ==== Alternative forms ==== grise ==== Noun ==== grice (plural gricen or grices) (now Scotland) A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct. 1789, William Thomson, Mammuth: or, human nature displayed on a grand scale: in a tour with the tinkers, into the inland parts of Africa. By the man in the moon. In two volumes. publ. G. and T. Wilkie, pg.105: Through a door to one of the galleries, left half open on purpose I was attracted to a dainty hot supper, consisting of stewed mushrooms and the fat paps and ears of very young pigs, or, as they call them, gricen. ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === Unknown. Possibly from Richard Grice, the first champion trainspotter[1]. Alternatively perhaps a humorous representation of an upper-class pronunciation of grouser (“grouse-shooter”)[2]. In either case the derivation could be direct or a back-formation from gricer. ==== Verb ==== grice (third-person singular simple present grices, present participle gricing, simple past and past participle griced) (UK, rail transport, slang) to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting. ===== Related terms ===== gricer === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== grice (plural grices) (obsolete) A step or stair. === References === === Anagrams === -ergic == Scots == === Etymology === From Old Norse gríss. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡrəis/ === Noun === grice (plural grices) pig, piglet