grice
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grice¹
- /ɡɹʌɪs/ UK
Rhymes with -ʌɪs
Where it comes from
From Middle English gris, from Old Norse gríss (“male pig; pigling”). Compare Old Dutch gristo, gristio (“boar, wild boar”).
noun gricen · grices · grise
- 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 gray
grice²
- /ɡɹʌɪs/ UK
Rhymes with -ʌɪs
Where it comes from
Back-formation from gricer.
verb grices · gricing · 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.
grice³
- /ɡɹʌɪs/ UK
Rhymes with -ʌɪs
Where it comes from
Formed by analogy with lice and mice as the plurals of louse and mouse.
noun
- plural of grouse Logan and I collected bugs in his bug jar while Lily ran all over the place trying to find Mrs. Grouse and all the little Grice.
grice⁴
- /ɡɹʌɪs/ UK
Rhymes with -ʌɪs
noun grices
- A step or stair. he stood under the grices
Grice⁵
proper noun Grices
- A surname.
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