grigs

Noun (1)

grig (plural grigs)

1. (obsolete) A dwarf.
2. A cricket or grasshopper.
   • The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig.1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 5, in Lud-in-the-Mist
3. A small or young eel.
   • [W]e assembled at one o'clock, at two sat down to dinner, consisting of capital stewed grigs, a dish Mrs Burt was famous for dressing, a large joint of roast or boiled meat, with proper vegetables and a good-sized pudding or pie […] .1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 41
4. Specifically, the broad-nosed eel. See glut.

Noun (2)

grig

1. (Shropshire, UK, dialectal) Heath or heather.
   • The further method of tillage pursued, was to make fallows; and if the season permitted, so that the ground could be cleared and burnt off, to destroy the grig or heath, […]1791, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, Transactions of the Society of Arts, volume 9, page 80

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