grign.¹

Brit.

/ɡrɪɡ/, U.S.

/ɡrɪɡ/

Forms: Also Middle English grege, 1600s greg, grigg(e.

Etymology: Of obscure origin. The identity of the word in the various senses is very doubtful, but Johnson's conjecture that it originally meant ‘anything below the natural size’ would plausibly account for all the uses. (Compare griggles n.) Compare also Swedish dialect krik (literary Swedish kräk ) little animal, small child; Scots crick , crike , ? a louse (Jamieson); also crick n.⁴

†1. A diminutive person, a dwarf. [Perhaps transferred from sense 3 (or 4, if the latter be genuine).] Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person

dwarfeOE

congeonc1230

go-by-ground?a1300

smalla1300

shrimpc1386

griga1400

gruba1400

murche1440

nirvil1440

mitinga1450

witherling1528

wretchocka1529

elf1530

hop-o'-my-thumb1530

pygmy1533

little person1538

manikin1540

mankin1552

dandiprat1556

yrle1568

grundy1570

Jack Sprat1570

squall1570

manling1573

Tom Thumb1579

pinka1585

squib1586

screaling1594

giant-dwarf1598

twattle1598

agate1600

minimus1600

cock sparrow1602

dapperling1611

modicum1611

scrub1611

sesquipedalian1615

dwarflinga1618

wretchcock1641

homuncio1643

whip-handle1653

homuncule1656

whippersnapper1674

chitterling1675

sprite1684

carliea1689

urling1691

wirling1691

dwarf man1699

poppet1699

durgan1706

short-arse1706

tomtit1706

Lilliputian1726

wallydraigle1736

midge1757

minikin1761

squeeze-crab1785

minimum1796

niff-naff1808

titman1818

teetotum1822

squita1825

cradden1825

nyaff1825

weed1825

pinkeen1850

fingerling1864

Lilliput1867

thumbling1867

midget1869

inch1884

shorty1888

titch1888

skimpling1890

stub1890

scrap1898

pygmoid1922

lofty1933

peewee1935

smidgen1952

pint-size1954

pint-sized1973

munchkin1974

a1400–50 Alexander 1753 Slike a dwinyng, a dwaȝe, & a dwerȝe as þi-selfe, A grub, a grege out of grace [Dubl. A grob, a grig out of grece].

1629 J. Maxwell tr. Herodian Hist. 209 Having..scoft him, for that being such a low Grigge [Gk. μικρὸς ὤν, L. tantulæ homo staturæ], he would presume to personate such High and Mighty Heroes as Alexander and Achilles.

2. A short-legged hen. Also grig-hen n. Obsolete exc. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen > types of

grig1589

Barbary hen1600

game hen1640

Light Sussex1902

1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 684 A Grigge or shorte legged henne, gallinella, gallinula.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 300 A dwarfish kind of hens, (i. grig hens) that are extraordinarie little.

1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words

1866 J. Sleigh Derbyshire Gloss. in Reliquary 6 160 Grig, a Bantam fowl.

a. A species of eel; a small or young eel (see quots.). Also more fully grig-eel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > unspecified types

pimpernol1251

shaft-eel1411

kempc1440

snig1483

stub eel15..

fausen1547

shafflin1553

muraena1555

scaffling1589

grig1611

long-fish1611

stone-grig1666

sea-serpent1752

bed-eel1769

sniggle1863

slipper1866

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Anguillette, a Grig, or little Eele.

1629 J. Gaule Distractions 130 Silly Grigge! Come out of thy Pond and Mud.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler x. 192 The silver-Eele, and green or greenish Eel (with which the River of Thames abounds, and are called Gregs ).

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 325/1 An eel first a Fausen, then a Grigg, or Snigg.

1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) at Elvers A sort of Griggs, or small Eels, which..swim on the top of the Water, about Bristol.

1758 R. Griffiths Descr. Thames 193 The Greenish, or Greg-Eel.

1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 114 There is another variety of this fish [sc. the eel] known in the Thames by the name of Grigs, and about Oxford by that of Grigs or Gluts.

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xxxi. 234 The grig is a yellowish eel, with a projecting underjaw.

b. attributive in grig-weel (†also shortened grig), a basket-work trap for catching grigs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > trap for eels

eel-set157.

kill1630

eel-pot1631

buck1694

burrock1701

grig-weel1798

hinaki1845

eel-buck1866

eel-putchon1883

eel-weel1883

1798 Trans. Soc. Arts 16 135 Used by the fishermen to make grigs, or twig tunnels, to catch eels and other fish.

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 57 Grig Weel. Lamprey Weel... Improved Eel Pot.

4. A grasshopper or cricket. dialect.The genuineness of this sense is doubtful, as the dialect glossaries containing it usually quote as their sole example the phrase ‘merry as a grig’ (see 5).

ΚΠ

1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Grig..a cricket. Var. dial.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 104 The dry High-elbow'd grigs that leap in summer grass.

1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Grig..a cricket.

a. a merry (or †mad) grig (rarely without adjective): an extravagantly lively person, one who is full of frolic and jest. Also in phrase as merry (or lively) as a grig. [Commonly associated with sense 4; but it is possible that sense 4 is itself merely an erroneous inference from the equivalence of the above phrases with ‘a merry crick’, ‘merry as a cricket’; if so, the allusion in ‘a merry grig’ may originally have been to sense 3 or even to sense 2. The relation of merry grig to the earlier recorded synonym merry Greek is obscure; no doubt one of them must have been a perversion of the other, but the difference of recorded date is too slight to afford ground for saying that merry Greek is the original. The probability seems indeed rather on the other side, as it is not easy to explain why Greek should be used in this sense, for which there is no precedent in French. Compare also gig n.¹]

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > frolicker

wantonc1450

friskera1549

a merry (or mad) grig1566

friskin1596

uptails1602

gamester1616

romp1678

romper?1780

frolicker1801

skylarker1818

larker1826

rollicker1837

larrikin1868

rompster1893

jive-ass1964

the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [adjective]

blitheOE

merryOE

golikc1175

lustya1225

playfulc1225

jollyc1305

merrya1350

jocund?c1380

galliardc1386

in (also on) a (merry, etc.) pinc1395

mirthfula1400

baudec1400

gayc1400

jovy1426

jocantc1440

crank1499

envoisiesa1500

as merry as a cricket1509

pleasant1530

frolic?1548

jolious1575

gleeful1586

buxom1590

gleesome1590

festival1592

laughter-loving1592

disposed1593

jucund1596

heartsomec1600

jovial1607

jovialist1610

laughsome1612

jocundary1618

gaysome1633

chirpinga1637

jovialissime1652

airy1654

festivous1654

hilarous1659

spleneticala1661

cocket1671

cranny1673

high1695

vogie1715

raffing?1719

festal1724

as merry (or lively) as a grig1728

hearty1755

tittuping1772

festive1774

fun-loving1776

mirthsome1787

Falstaffian1809

cranky1811

laughful1825

as lively as a cricket1832

hurrah1835

hilarious1838

Bacchic1865

laughterful1874

griggish1879

banzai1929

slap-you-on-the-back1932

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Bv^v A merry grigge, a iocande frende.

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 4 A company of merrie grigs you must think them to be.

1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. C2 Whilst I And my mad Grigs, my men can runne at base.

a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor iii. iii. 50 in Five New Playes (1659) Ile to my Griggs Again; And there will find new mirth to stretch And laugh.

a1726 J. Vanbrugh Journey to London (1728) i. ii. 9 A very pretty civil young Woman truly, and the Maids are the merriest Griggs.

1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband v. i. 77 Man. I thought you had all Supt at home last Night? Sir Fran. Why so we did—and all as merry as Grigs.

1760 O. Goldsmith in Brit. Mag. Oct. 579/2 I grew as merry as a grig, and laughed at every word that was spoken.

1810 Splendid Follies I. 176 She capered mighty consequentially, and yet she has no bold appearance; but that nation [the French] are such a set of grigs, I don't wonder at it.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. l. 75 I shall be as merry as a grig among these gentry.

1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xviii. 161 Her aunt..has turned as lively as a grig.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters viii. 200 To such a man, this grig of a girl, ever on the alert for roguery,..is an absolute abomination.

1868 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. 65 When I was a young grig—not very full of hope about my woman's future.

†b. Apparently the designation of the members of some convivial society. (Perhaps a different word.) Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1810 G. Crabbe Borough x. 145 Griggs and Gregorians here their Meetings hold.

6. slang. A farthing; plural money, cash, ‘dibs’.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > [noun]

silverc825

feec870

pennieseOE

wortheOE

mintOE

scata1122

spense?c1225

spendinga1290

sumc1300

gooda1325

moneya1325

cattlec1330

muckc1330

reasona1382

pecunyc1400

gilt1497

argentc1500

gelta1529

Mammon1539

ale silver1541

scruff1559

the sinews of war1560

sterling1565

lour1567

will-do-all1583

shell1591

trasha1592

quinyie1596

brass1597

pecuniary1604

dust1607

nomisma1614

countera1616

cross and pilea1625

gingerbreada1625

rhinoa1628

cash1646

grig1657

spanker1663

cole1673

goree1699

mopus1699

quid1699

ribbin1699

bustle1763

necessary1772

stuff1775

needfula1777

iron1785

(the) Spanish1788

pecuniar1793

kelter1807

dibs1812

steven1812

pewter1814

brad1819

pogue1819

rent1823

stumpy1828

posh1830

L. S. D.1835

rivetc1835

tin1836

mint sauce1839

nobbins1846

ochre1846

dingbat1848

dough1848

cheese1850

California1851

mali1851

ducat1853

pay dirt1853

boodle?1856

dinero1856

scad1856

the shiny1856

spondulicks1857

rust1858

soap1860

sugar1862

coin1874

filthy1876

wampum1876

ooftish1877

shekel1883

oil1885

oof1885

mon1888

Jack1890

sploshc1890

bees and honey1892

spending-brass1896

stiff1897

mazuma1900

mazoom1901

cabbage1903

lettuce1903

Oscar Asche1905

jingle1906

doubloons1908

kale1912

scratch1914

green1917

oscar1917

snow1925

poke1926

oodle1930

potatos1931

bread1935

moolah1936

acker1939

moo1941

lolly1943

loot1943

poppy1943

mazoola1944

dosh1953

bickies1966

lovely jubbly1990

scrilla1994

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > farthing

farthingc950

ferlingc1000

quadransOE

quarter1389

quadrantc1450

quatrinc1470

Q1530

quadrine1557

rag1592

qua1631

grig1657

Jack?c1690

fadge1789

daddler1900

1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 335 The poor man..sent to one Mr. Best..to pay her 40l. to accommodate her for her journey home; but she having received the griggs set sail another way.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) Not a Grig did he tip me, not a Farthing wou'd he give me.

1747 Fool (1748) II. 129 When speaking of a Man without any Money in his Pocket, we say that he is not worth a Grig; that is, he has not wherewith to make himself merry.

1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue

1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard I. i. iii. 68 He shall go through the whole course..unless he comes down to the last grig.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

grigv.¹

Brit.

/ɡrɪɡ/, U.S.

/ɡrɪɡ/, Irish English

/ɡrɪɡ/

Forms: 1500s grigge, 1700s– grig, 1800s– greg (English regional (Cumberland), Irish English, and U.S.).

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as English regional (south-western) grig to pinch, to squeeze (mid 19th cent. or earlier), perhaps ultimately related to grig n.¹ (compare grig n.¹ 5).Irish griog to pinch or stab, to urge, incite, to tease, irritate, annoy (1806 or earlier) is probably < English.

Now Anglo-Irish and U.S.

transitive. To irritate, annoy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex

gremec893

dretchc900

awhenec1000

teenOE

fretc1290

annoyc1300

atrayc1320

encumberc1330

diseasec1340

grindc1350

distemperc1386

offenda1387

arra1400

avexa1400

derea1400

miscomforta1400

angerc1400

engrievec1400

vex1418

molesta1425

entrouble?1435

destroublea1450

poina1450

rubc1450

to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450

disprofit1483

agrea1492

trouble1515

grig1553

mis-set?1553

nip?1553

grate1555

gripe1559

spitec1563

fike?1572

gall1573

corsie1574

corrosive1581

touch1581

disaccommodate1586

macerate1588

perplex1590

thorn1592

exulcerate1593

plague1595

incommode1598

affret1600

brier1601

to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603

discommodate1606

incommodate1611

to grate on or upon1631

disincommodate1635

shog1636

ulcerate1647

incommodiate1650

to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653

discommodiate1654

discommode1657

ruffle1659

regrate1661

disoblige1668

torment1718

pesta1729

chagrin1734

pingle1740

bothera1745

potter1747

wherrit1762

to tweak the nose of1784

to play up1803

tout1808

rasp1810

outrage1818

worrit1818

werrit1825

buggerlug1850

taigle1865

get1867

to give a person the pip1881

to get across ——1888

nark1888

eat1893

to twist the tail1895

dudgeon1906

to tweak the tail of1909

sore1929

to put up1930

wouldn't it rip you!1941

sheg1943

to dick around1944

cheese1946

to pee off1946

to honk off1970

to fuck off1973

to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977

to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983

to wind up1984

to dick about1996

to-teen-

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 98 When we jest closely, and, with dissemblyng meanes, grigge our felowe.

1837 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. (ed. 2) viii That remark seemed to grig him a little.

1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy I. xii. 211 The counsellor grigging me.

1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. vi. 173 That word superiors grigged me.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	grig
释义	grign.¹ Brit. /ɡrɪɡ/, U.S. /ɡrɪɡ/ Forms: Also Middle English grege, 1600s greg, grigg(e. Etymology: Of obscure origin. The identity of the word in the various senses is very doubtful, but Johnson's conjecture that it originally meant ‘anything below the natural size’ would plausibly account for all the uses. (Compare griggles n.) Compare also Swedish dialect krik (literary Swedish kräk ) little animal, small child; Scots crick , crike , ? a louse (Jamieson); also crick n.⁴ †1. A diminutive person, a dwarf. [Perhaps transferred from sense 3 (or 4, if the latter be genuine).] Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person dwarfeOE congeonc1230 go-by-ground?a1300 smalla1300 shrimpc1386 griga1400 gruba1400 murche1440 nirvil1440 mitinga1450 witherling1528 wretchocka1529 elf1530 hop-o'-my-thumb1530 pygmy1533 little person1538 manikin1540 mankin1552 dandiprat1556 yrle1568 grundy1570 Jack Sprat1570 squall1570 manling1573 Tom Thumb1579 pinka1585 squib1586 screaling1594 giant-dwarf1598 twattle1598 agate1600 minimus1600 cock sparrow1602 dapperling1611 modicum1611 scrub1611 sesquipedalian1615 dwarflinga1618 wretchcock1641 homuncio1643 whip-handle1653 homuncule1656 whippersnapper1674 chitterling1675 sprite1684 carliea1689 urling1691 wirling1691 dwarf man1699 poppet1699 durgan1706 short-arse1706 tomtit1706 Lilliputian1726 wallydraigle1736 midge1757 minikin1761 squeeze-crab1785 minimum1796 niff-naff1808 titman1818 teetotum1822 squita1825 cradden1825 nyaff1825 weed1825 pinkeen1850 fingerling1864 Lilliput1867 thumbling1867 midget1869 inch1884 shorty1888 titch1888 skimpling1890 stub1890 scrap1898 pygmoid1922 lofty1933 peewee1935 smidgen1952 pint-size1954 pint-sized1973 munchkin1974 a1400–50 Alexander 1753 Slike a dwinyng, a dwaȝe, & a dwerȝe as þi-selfe, A grub, a grege out of grace [Dubl. A grob, a grig out of grece]. 1629 J. Maxwell tr. Herodian Hist. 209 Having..scoft him, for that being such a low Grigge [Gk. μικρὸς ὤν, L. tantulæ homo staturæ], he would presume to personate such High and Mighty Heroes as Alexander and Achilles. 2. A short-legged hen. Also grig-hen n. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen > types of grig1589 Barbary hen1600 game hen1640 Light Sussex1902 1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 684 A Grigge or shorte legged henne, gallinella, gallinula. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 300 A dwarfish kind of hens, (i. grig hens) that are extraordinarie little. 1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words 1866 J. Sleigh Derbyshire Gloss. in Reliquary 6 160 Grig, a Bantam fowl. 3. a. A species of eel; a small or young eel (see quots.). Also more fully grig-eel. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > unspecified types pimpernol1251 shaft-eel1411 kempc1440 snig1483 stub eel15.. fausen1547 shafflin1553 muraena1555 scaffling1589 grig1611 long-fish1611 stone-grig1666 sea-serpent1752 bed-eel1769 sniggle1863 slipper1866 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Anguillette, a Grig, or little Eele. 1629 J. Gaule Distractions 130 Silly Grigge! Come out of thy Pond and Mud. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler x. 192 The silver-Eele, and green or greenish Eel (with which the River of Thames abounds, and are called Gregs ). View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 325/1 An eel first a Fausen, then a Grigg, or Snigg. 1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) at Elvers A sort of Griggs, or small Eels, which..swim on the top of the Water, about Bristol. 1758 R. Griffiths Descr. Thames 193 The Greenish, or Greg-Eel. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 114 There is another variety of this fish [sc. the eel] known in the Thames by the name of Grigs, and about Oxford by that of Grigs or Gluts. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xxxi. 234 The grig is a yellowish eel, with a projecting underjaw. b. attributive in grig-weel (†also shortened grig), a basket-work trap for catching grigs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > trap for eels eel-set157. kill1630 eel-pot1631 buck1694 burrock1701 grig-weel1798 hinaki1845 eel-buck1866 eel-putchon1883 eel-weel1883 1798 Trans. Soc. Arts 16 135 Used by the fishermen to make grigs, or twig tunnels, to catch eels and other fish. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 57 Grig Weel. Lamprey Weel... Improved Eel Pot. 4. A grasshopper or cricket. dialect.The genuineness of this sense is doubtful, as the dialect glossaries containing it usually quote as their sole example the phrase ‘merry as a grig’ (see 5). ΚΠ 1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Grig..a cricket. Var. dial. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 104 The dry High-elbow'd grigs that leap in summer grass. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Grig..a cricket. 5. a. a merry (or †mad) grig (rarely without adjective): an extravagantly lively person, one who is full of frolic and jest. Also in phrase as merry (or lively) as a grig. [Commonly associated with sense 4; but it is possible that sense 4 is itself merely an erroneous inference from the equivalence of the above phrases with ‘a merry crick’, ‘merry as a cricket’; if so, the allusion in ‘a merry grig’ may originally have been to sense 3 or even to sense 2. The relation of merry grig to the earlier recorded synonym merry Greek is obscure; no doubt one of them must have been a perversion of the other, but the difference of recorded date is too slight to afford ground for saying that merry Greek is the original. The probability seems indeed rather on the other side, as it is not easy to explain why Greek should be used in this sense, for which there is no precedent in French. Compare also gig n.¹] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > frolicker wantonc1450 friskera1549 a merry (or mad) grig1566 friskin1596 uptails1602 gamester1616 romp1678 romper?1780 frolicker1801 skylarker1818 larker1826 rollicker1837 larrikin1868 rompster1893 jive-ass1964 the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [adjective] blitheOE merryOE golikc1175 lustya1225 playfulc1225 jollyc1305 merrya1350 jocund?c1380 galliardc1386 in (also on) a (merry, etc.) pinc1395 mirthfula1400 baudec1400 gayc1400 jovy1426 jocantc1440 crank1499 envoisiesa1500 as merry as a cricket1509 pleasant1530 frolic?1548 jolious1575 gleeful1586 buxom1590 gleesome1590 festival1592 laughter-loving1592 disposed1593 jucund1596 heartsomec1600 jovial1607 jovialist1610 laughsome1612 jocundary1618 gaysome1633 chirpinga1637 jovialissime1652 airy1654 festivous1654 hilarous1659 spleneticala1661 cocket1671 cranny1673 high1695 vogie1715 raffing?1719 festal1724 as merry (or lively) as a grig1728 hearty1755 tittuping1772 festive1774 fun-loving1776 mirthsome1787 Falstaffian1809 cranky1811 laughful1825 as lively as a cricket1832 hurrah1835 hilarious1838 Bacchic1865 laughterful1874 griggish1879 banzai1929 slap-you-on-the-back1932 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Bv^v A merry grigge, a iocande frende. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 4 A company of merrie grigs you must think them to be. 1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. C2 Whilst I And my mad Grigs, my men can runne at base. a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor iii. iii. 50 in Five New Playes (1659) Ile to my Griggs Again; And there will find new mirth to stretch And laugh. a1726 J. Vanbrugh Journey to London (1728) i. ii. 9 A very pretty civil young Woman truly, and the Maids are the merriest Griggs. 1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband v. i. 77 Man. I thought you had all Supt at home last Night? Sir Fran. Why so we did—and all as merry as Grigs. 1760 O. Goldsmith in Brit. Mag. Oct. 579/2 I grew as merry as a grig, and laughed at every word that was spoken. 1810 Splendid Follies I. 176 She capered mighty consequentially, and yet she has no bold appearance; but that nation [the French] are such a set of grigs, I don't wonder at it. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. l. 75 I shall be as merry as a grig among these gentry. 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xviii. 161 Her aunt..has turned as lively as a grig. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters viii. 200 To such a man, this grig of a girl, ever on the alert for roguery,..is an absolute abomination. 1868 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. 65 When I was a young grig—not very full of hope about my woman's future. †b. Apparently the designation of the members of some convivial society. (Perhaps a different word.) Obsolete. ΚΠ 1810 G. Crabbe Borough x. 145 Griggs and Gregorians here their Meetings hold. 6. slang. A farthing; plural money, cash, ‘dibs’. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [noun] silverc825 feec870 pennieseOE wortheOE mintOE scata1122 spense?c1225 spendinga1290 sumc1300 gooda1325 moneya1325 cattlec1330 muckc1330 reasona1382 pecunyc1400 gilt1497 argentc1500 gelta1529 Mammon1539 ale silver1541 scruff1559 the sinews of war1560 sterling1565 lour1567 will-do-all1583 shell1591 trasha1592 quinyie1596 brass1597 pecuniary1604 dust1607 nomisma1614 countera1616 cross and pilea1625 gingerbreada1625 rhinoa1628 cash1646 grig1657 spanker1663 cole1673 goree1699 mopus1699 quid1699 ribbin1699 bustle1763 necessary1772 stuff1775 needfula1777 iron1785 (the) Spanish1788 pecuniar1793 kelter1807 dibs1812 steven1812 pewter1814 brad1819 pogue1819 rent1823 stumpy1828 posh1830 L. S. D.1835 rivetc1835 tin1836 mint sauce1839 nobbins1846 ochre1846 dingbat1848 dough1848 cheese1850 California1851 mali1851 ducat1853 pay dirt1853 boodle?1856 dinero1856 scad1856 the shiny1856 spondulicks1857 rust1858 soap1860 sugar1862 coin1874 filthy1876 wampum1876 ooftish1877 shekel1883 oil1885 oof1885 mon1888 Jack1890 sploshc1890 bees and honey1892 spending-brass1896 stiff1897 mazuma1900 mazoom1901 cabbage1903 lettuce1903 Oscar Asche1905 jingle1906 doubloons1908 kale1912 scratch1914 green1917 oscar1917 snow1925 poke1926 oodle1930 potatos1931 bread1935 moolah1936 acker1939 moo1941 lolly1943 loot1943 poppy1943 mazoola1944 dosh1953 bickies1966 lovely jubbly1990 scrilla1994 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > farthing farthingc950 ferlingc1000 quadransOE quarter1389 quadrantc1450 quatrinc1470 Q1530 quadrine1557 rag1592 qua1631 grig1657 Jack?c1690 fadge1789 daddler1900 1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 335 The poor man..sent to one Mr. Best..to pay her 40l. to accommodate her for her journey home; but she having received the griggs set sail another way. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) Not a Grig did he tip me, not a Farthing wou'd he give me. 1747 Fool (1748) II. 129 When speaking of a Man without any Money in his Pocket, we say that he is not worth a Grig; that is, he has not wherewith to make himself merry. 1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue 1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard I. i. iii. 68 He shall go through the whole course..unless he comes down to the last grig. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). grign.² Brit. /ɡrɪɡ/, U.S. /ɡrɪɡ/, Welsh English /ɡrɪɡ/ Etymology: < Welsh grug, Cornish grig = Irish, Gaelic fraoch < Old Celtic wroiko-s. dialect. The common heath or heather, Calluna vulgaris; also, cross-leaved heath, Erica Tetralix. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > heather or heath and similar plants > [noun] heather1335 ling?c1357 heath1626 grig1691 bottle heath?1711 sea-heath1713 heather-bell1725 red heath?1788 Calluna1803 Scotch heath1822 Erica1826 winter heath1842 heathwort1847 heath-blooms1858 St. Dabeoc's heath1863 cat-heather1864 honey bottle1868 French heath1871 1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words* (ed. 2) 126 Grig, salopiensibus Heath. 1692 Act 4 Will. & Mary c. 23 §9 Any Grig, Ling, Heath [etc.]. 1791 Trans. Soc. Arts 9 78 With strong heath, grig, or ling, growing thereon. 1829 Evans & Ruffy's Farmers Jrnl. 14 Sept. 291 Digging stone, cutting grig, fern, and rushes. 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 113 Erica vulgaris, long grig or common heath. 1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Grig, (2) Erica Tetralix. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). grigv.¹ Brit. /ɡrɪɡ/, U.S. /ɡrɪɡ/, Irish English /ɡrɪɡ/ Forms: 1500s grigge, 1700s– grig, 1800s– greg (English regional (Cumberland), Irish English, and U.S.). Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as English regional (south-western) grig to pinch, to squeeze (mid 19th cent. or earlier), perhaps ultimately related to grig n.¹ (compare grig n.¹ 5).Irish griog to pinch or stab, to urge, incite, to tease, irritate, annoy (1806 or earlier) is probably < English. Now Anglo-Irish and U.S. transitive. To irritate, annoy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex gremec893 dretchc900 awhenec1000 teenOE fretc1290 annoyc1300 atrayc1320 encumberc1330 diseasec1340 grindc1350 distemperc1386 offenda1387 arra1400 avexa1400 derea1400 miscomforta1400 angerc1400 engrievec1400 vex1418 molesta1425 entrouble?1435 destroublea1450 poina1450 rubc1450 to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450 disprofit1483 agrea1492 trouble1515 grig1553 mis-set?1553 nip?1553 grate1555 gripe1559 spitec1563 fike?1572 gall1573 corsie1574 corrosive1581 touch1581 disaccommodate1586 macerate1588 perplex1590 thorn1592 exulcerate1593 plague1595 incommode1598 affret1600 brier1601 to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603 discommodate1606 incommodate1611 to grate on or upon1631 disincommodate1635 shog1636 ulcerate1647 incommodiate1650 to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653 discommodiate1654 discommode1657 ruffle1659 regrate1661 disoblige1668 torment1718 pesta1729 chagrin1734 pingle1740 bothera1745 potter1747 wherrit1762 to tweak the nose of1784 to play up1803 tout1808 rasp1810 outrage1818 worrit1818 werrit1825 buggerlug1850 taigle1865 get1867 to give a person the pip1881 to get across ——1888 nark1888 eat1893 to twist the tail1895 dudgeon1906 to tweak the tail of1909 sore1929 to put up1930 wouldn't it rip you!1941 sheg1943 to dick around1944 cheese1946 to pee off1946 to honk off1970 to fuck off1973 to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977 to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983 to wind up1984 to dick about1996 to-teen- 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 98 When we jest closely, and, with dissemblyng meanes, grigge our felowe. 1837 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. (ed. 2) viii That remark seemed to grig him a little. 1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy I. xii. 211 The counsellor grigging me. 1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. vi. 173 That word superiors grigged me. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). grigv.² Brit. /ɡrɪɡ/, U.S. /ɡrɪɡ/ Forms: Also 1700s greg. Etymology: < grig n.¹ 3. intransitive. To fish for grig. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > fish for type of fish [verb (intransitive)] > fish for eels in specific manner bob1614 sniggle1671 grig1764 1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 68 Getting ready their Carting Nets to go a Gregging. Derivatives ˈgrigging n. ΚΠ 1820–2 W. H. Pyne Wine & Walnuts (1824) II. vi. 53 The wharf..was much frequented..by parties who were fond of the eel-net, or grigging. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1400n.²1691v.¹1553v.²1764
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