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▪ I. gritty, a.1|ˈgrɪtɪ|
Also 6–7 greetie, 7 grettie, -y, 7, 9 dial. greety.
[f. grit n.1 + -y.]
1. Of the nature of or resembling grit; containing, consisting of, or full of grit; sandy.
1598Florio, Renóso, sandie, grauelly, greetie, full of grauell. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. iii. 7 Base herbes, and rough sandy stone, denotate a leane greety sandie or grauelly ground. 1694Falle Jersey ii. 60 The higher Grounds are gritty, gravelly, and some stony and rocky. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 35/1 Pit-sand..is of several kinds.., the carbuncly, and the gritty. c1790J. Imison Sch. Art ii. 14 Permit it to stand about ten seconds of time, in order to let the gritty parts settle to the bottom. a1806S. Horsley Serm. II. 43 The grovelling posture and the gritty meal [of the serpent]. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xix, A four-horse carriage, dashing by, obscured all objects in the gritty cloud it raised. 1876Page Adv. Text-Bk. Geol. xviii. 338 In Devon and Dorset a gritty bed with numerous fossils occurs towards the base of the chalk. 1860Tristram Gt. Sahara xiii. 213 A strong..wind saturated the air with impalpable sand, till every pore of the body was gritty and irritated.
2. Full of or containing minute hard particles impairing the quality or condition of the substance which harbours them, or rendering it unpleasant.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xx. (1632) 44 A fantasie conceived..by eating of some gretty peece of bread. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 491 They sopped that gritty bread in the wine that was made of very old Lees. 1795Rapin's Garden 313 The worthless Thorn a valu'd Plum will bear, And what was gritty prove a melting Pear. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) iii. xxxiii, Hitching your knife in the gritty flaws of a black-lead pencil. 1829Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 II. 43 These young bakers make their bread very gritty. 1831J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 367 Of a dull and rough fracture, gritty under the teeth.
b. fig. of literary style, with allusion to the unpleasant quality of ‘gritty’ bread.
1882J. C. Morison Macaulay 68 Alternate pages of extract and comment—generally rather dull and gritty. 1894A. Birrell Ess. xi. 122 The style is gritty and the story far from exciting.
3. U.S. colloq. Having firmness of character or courage; full of determination or pluck.
1847Robb Squatter Life 106 There never was a grittyer crowd congregated on that stream. 18..Lowell Standish Poet. Wks. 1890 I. 222 My neighbor Buckingham Hath somewhat in him gritty, Some Pilgrim-stuff that hates all sham. 1891Century Mag. Nov. 65 They were captured by a band of gritty frontiersmen under Sheriff Boswell.
▸ Harsh; bleak; unsparingly realistic.
1890N.Y. Times 1 Sept. 3/1 Trollope and Froude give you the hard, gritty facts, and Lafcadio Hearn the sentiment and poetry of this beautiful island. 1936H. S. Commager Theodore Parker xiii. 287 He did not condescend to his audience, but gave them the hard, gritty truth, and learning too. 1974Times 24 Jan. 13/6 Those fine episodes of yore, with their gritty realism and low-key action. 2003Art Q. Spring 36/1 In his unflinchingly accurate depictions of the prostitutes, sailors, and longshoremen.., he worked in the gritty, naturalistic style of his mentor, Gustave Courbet.
▪ II. † gritty, a.2 Obs. Her.|ˈgrɪtɪ|
In 5–6 grytty, 6 grittie.
[Origin unknown; connexion with grate n.1 is suggested by the sense.]
Of a field: Composed equally of a metal and a colour.
1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. B v, Thre Cootarmuris grytty ther bene in armys. 1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 76 After this furre, as many as are out of these orders aforesaid, shall be named of the colour and mettall they are of, and haue bin commonly called Grytty of Herehaughtes. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 204 The first feeld that is Grittie, is, when as the feeld is checqued of two or more cullors. 1780Edmondson Her. II. Gloss., Grittie, a term used by English writers to express the field when composed equally of metal and colour. |