Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. UK, rail transport, slang to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.
- n. A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.
- n. obsolete A gree; a step.
Etymologies
- From Old Norse gríss. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Over a quarter of a century ago I was a jolly, singing, hoop-pee mill-boy, and carried many a "grice" to William Easley's tub-mill on "Little Fish River," kept by my old friend Larkin Snow.”
“So that an experienced cavalier, knowing how to lay, as our Scottish phrase runs, ‘the head of the sow to the tail of the grice,’ might get out of the country the pay whilk he could not obtain from the”
“I agree, the refiners are holding all of us up! lewis w. grice”
“Gri feeled of the scripes he would escipe if by grice he had luck enoupes.”
“Some figures of gas consumption from India: Boiling 1 l of water: 40 l; boiling 5 l of water 165 l; cooking 500 grice: 140 l; cooking 1000 g rice: 175 l; cooking 350 9 pulses: 270”
“Grice -- why not? plural of mouse, mice -- grice, we say, are growing more absent, and therefore dearer.”
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892
“Marcassin, a young wild boare; a shoot or grice.”
“Head of the sow to the tail of the grice, to take the good with the bad.”
“I'se ne'er deny I hae won by ye mony a fair pund sterling --- Sae, an it come to the warst, I'se een lay the head o 'the sow to the tail o' the grice. '”
“So that an experienced cavalier, knowing how to lay, as our Scottish phrase runs, ` the head of the sow to the tail of the grice, might get out of the country the pay whilk he could not obtain from the Emperor. '”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grice’.
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List of Heraldry Terms
Words and phrases used in blazoning heraldic devices, along with names and other terms associated with the art and science.
Other similar lists can be found on Wordnik, especially that...seiant, duciper, bourdon, pouch, scrip, staff, ananas, besant d'argent, roundle, roundel, argent, allocamelus and 743 more...
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Pigs on Parade
pig-words: including, but not limited to, famous pigs in film and fiction, historical pigs of note, pig breeds, and assorted porcine terms
babe, the empress of bl..., freddy the pig, piglet, miss piggy, old major, snowball, napoleon, squealer, wilbur, porky pig, petunia pig and 89 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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Because I like Them: G --- H
gossypiboma, gymnophoria, ginglyform, goobermensch, gomeril, gump, grinagog, gorbelly, gound, hamesucken, hypobulic, humicubate and 93 more...
Tweets
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sionnach a young pig
Feb 26, 2008