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Definition grig

Etymology

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 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)

  1. little creature
    1. A cricket or grasshopper.
    2. An insect in the family Prophalangopsidae, related to katydids
    3. Any small eel.
    4. The broad-nosed eel. See glut
  2. heath.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To irritate or annoy.

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DIGGER 11
GINGER 11
GORING 11
GREIGE 10
GRIGRI 10
GRINGO 11
GYRING 13
JIGGER 19
RAGING 11
RIGGED 11
RIGGER 10
URGING 12
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IGG 7
RIG 5
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