grice
UK/ɡɹʌɪs/
grice noun: a pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct. Also the plural of grouse.
Noun (1)
grice (plural gricen or grices)
- A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct.
- This fine Smooth bawson cub, the young grice of a gray1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd
- Further, there was of meats wheat bread, main-bread and ginge-bread with fleshes, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, venison, goose, grice, capon, coney, cran, swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock and pawnies, black-cock and muir-fowl, cappercaillies;1728, Robert Lindsay, The history of Scotland, from 21 February, 1436. to March, 1565: in which are contained accounts of many remarkable passages altogether differing from our other historians, and...
Verb
grice (third-person singular simple present grices, present participle gricing, simple past and past participle griced)
- To act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting; to trainspot.
- Many people joined the railways because the 'carrot' of a staff pass was a considerable attraction, whether for family travel or to grice at extremely low cost.1999 March 29, Tony Polson, “Re: Do all UK rail staff get free unlimited Eurostar travel?”, in uk.railway (Usenet)
- We can also roganise photo charters, large group footplate courses and gricing holidays [...]2005 August, The Railway Magazine, volume 151, number 1252, IPC Business Press, page 55
Noun (2)
grice (plural grices)
Proper noun capitalized: Grice
Grice (plural Grices)
- A surname.
Also used as
grice is also the plural of grouse.
Forms of grice
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gricen |
| plural | grices |
| alternative form | grise |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | grices |
| present participle | gricing |
| past participle | griced |
| past | griced |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Grices |
Origin of grice
From Middle English gris, from Old Norse gríss (“male pig; pigling”). Compare Old Dutch gristo, gristio (“boar, wild boar”).
Back-formation from gricer.
Formed by analogy with lice and mice as the plurals of louse and mouse.
Words formed from grice
Phrases with grice
Questions about grice
- What does grice mean?
- Grice means a pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct.
- What part of speech is grice?
- Grice can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce grice?
- Grice is pronounced /ɡɹʌɪs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of grice?
- The plural of grice is gricen.
Words near grice in the dictionary
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