grig

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡɹɪɡ/ Rhymes: -ɪɡ Homophone: Grigg === Etymology 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). ==== Noun ==== grig (plural grigs) (obsolete) A dwarf. A cricket or grasshopper. A small or young eel. 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 41: [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 […] . Specifically, the broad-nosed eel. See glut. ===== Derived terms ===== lively as a grig merry as a grig === Etymology 2 === From Welsh grug, Cornish grig. ==== Noun ==== grig (UK, dialect) Heath or heather. === Etymology 3 === Borrowed from Irish griog. ==== Verb ==== grig (third-person singular simple present grigs, present participle grigging, simple past and past participle grigged) (transitive) To irritate or annoy. === Anagrams === Rigg == Yola == === Etymology === Borrowed from Irish griog. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡrɪɡ/ === Verb === grig To tantalize by showing without sharing a thing. === References ===