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gricer

gricer noun: a railway enthusiast, a trainspotter.

Noun

gricer (plural gricers)

  1. (informal) A railway enthusiast, a trainspotter.
    • The train was stuffed full of journalists and gricers, as railway enthusiasts are pejoratively termed. Some of the gricers, earnest, fresh-faced young men, almost to a person, who cut their milk teeth on Hornby trains, had booked on this train two years ago.1981 December 10, “Feedback”, in New Scientist, volume 92, number 1283, page 723
    • Such an eclectic mix of rolling stock also created the movement of standing train spotters and inspired the early gricers, those enthusiastic train photographers.2013, Jim Warren, The Lulworth Triangle: 1, page 24

Synonyms of gricer

Forms of gricer

pluralgricers

Origin of gricer

Uncertain. The suggestion that it is a humorous representation of a “received” pronunciation of grouser (“one who hunts or shoots grouse”), or from the humorous plural grice of grouse + -er, based on the supposed resemblance of train spotting to grouse-shooting, has been reported several times independently, among other speculative etymologies.

Words formed from gricer

Questions about gricer

What does gricer mean?
Gricer means a railway enthusiast, a trainspotter.
What part of speech is gricer?
Gricer is a noun.
What is the plural of gricer?
The plural of gricer is gricers.

Words near gricer in the dictionary

  1. grice
  2. Gricean
  3. Gricean maxims
  4. griced
  5. griceite
  6. gricer
  7. gricers
  8. grices
  9. Gricha
  10. gricing
  11. grid

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