gry

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Mr. Hornslager will surely be an - gry with me, but I don't care! "she said defiantly.

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  1. A dialectal variant of grue.
  2. A measure equal to one tenth of a line of a philosophical foot. It was never in general use. The longest of all [these horny substances] was that on the middle of the right hand, when I saw him, which was three inches and nine grys long, and one inch seven lines in girt. Locke, Letter to Boyle, June 16, 1679.
  3. Anything very small or of little value. [Rare.]

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  • He wasn't hun-gry, but he knew he was going to need the fuel. —  The False Mirror
  • Jennsen could see in the hun - gry eyes and humorless grins of the men behind him that they were pleased by the orders. —  The Pillars of Creation
  • Their thirst made them hun­gry, and they kept eating. —  Dragons Of Summer Flame
  • In a sense the discovery disappointed him, for it meant that the visitor had not been merely a hun-gry animal. —  Emperor of Ansalon
  • Mr. Hornslager will surely be an - gry with me, but I don't care! "she said defiantly. —  Stalling
 

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  1. Latin gry (in Plautus, where recent editions print it as Greek), the least trifle, from Greek γρῡ, always with preceding negative, ‘not a bit, not a morsel, not a syllable’; commonly explained as literally a grunt, the noise made by a pig (cf. Greek γρῡλος, later γρύλλος, a pig, γρύζειν, grumble, mutter); but Hesychius and others say that γρῡ was properly the dirt under the nail, and so anything utterly insignificant. Scots gru, a particle, an atom, appears to be taken from the Greek
 

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