Definitions
Etymologies
- Ultimately from Latin Graeco ("Greek"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“ “It is grego!” shouted one of the crew.”
“A salada grega, por exemplo, funciona tão bem com queijo de cabra como com feta, que é um queijo grego um bocadinho difícil de encontrar e um também um bocadinho caro.”
“O grego Khímaira parece ter significado «cabrinha».”
“Partisan grego ferido na II guerra, estudou matemática e arquitectura foi assistente de Le Corbusier antes de se dedicar à música.”
“Vem de Hermes Trimegistus, deus grego das magias, e identificado com Tot, deus egípcio e mestre da escritura, e também identificado com o latino Mercúrio - daí Trimegisto: Hermes, Tot, Mercúrio.”
“First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into a sacrificial blaze.”
“At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.”
“Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on”
“Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with”
“First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grego’.
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Mobying Along
looks like there's not an open Moby Dick list. So now there is.
hypos, Manhattoes, circumambulate, mole, grapnels, bowsprit, asphaltic, mazy, tranced, cataract, ungraspable, judgmatically and 227 more...
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Moby Dick
Words of interest from the book Moby Dick.
arrant, obstreperously, coffer-dam, farrago, rejoinder, counterpane, hamper, commend, grego, dreadnought, psalmody, expostulation and 85 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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The Whiteness of the Whale
Words in Melville's "Moby Dick"
grapnels, spile, pea coffee, farrago, grego, bosky, bombazine, brevet, cenotaph, cupidity, kelson, obliquity and 164 more...
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Moby-Dick
Interesting words and usages.
hypo, spile, hunks, grapnel, squitchy, skrimshander, monkey jacket, direful, grego, wrapall, dreadnaught, bosky and 158 more...
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Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Do as your mom says and put on a jacket.
frock coat, doublet, reefer, cutaway, morning coat, tailcoat, dinner jacket, smoking jacket, juste-au-corps, jerkin, basque, spencer and 134 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for grego.
yarb Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets...
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 3 Jul 23, 2008
chained_bear "'...should you not like a tarpaulin jacket with a hood, at least? Mr Wetherby, jump down to my cabin and fetch the Doctor a grego: there is one hanging against the bulkhead.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 213
I've seen this word before but spelled differently--griego.
Edit: A Sea of Words: "grego or griego--A coarse jacket with a hood worn in the Levant. Also slang for a rough greatcoat." (220) Mar 19, 2008