Grice
name, noun, verb, slang ·1 syllable ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct. Scotland
"This fine Smooth bawson cub, the young grice of a gray"
- 2 A step or stair. obsolete
"he stood under the grices"
- 1 to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting. UK, slang
"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."
- 1 A surname.
Synonyms
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More examples"This fine Smooth bawson cub, the young grice of a gray"
Etymology
From Middle English gris, from Old Norse gríss (“male pig; pigling”). Compare Old Dutch gristo, gristio (“boar, wild boar”).
Unknown, possibly from Richard Grice, the first champion trainspotterhttp://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rdU1xtIWJz0C&q=grice+trainspotter&dq=grice+trainspotter&hl=en&sa=X&ei=afhsT5ChFe-R0QWF8K3HBg&redir_esc=y, alternatively perhaps a humorous representation of an upper-class pronunciation of grouser (“grouse-shooter”)https://web.archive.org/web/20120313071637/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gricer. In either case the derivation could be direct or a back-formation from gricer.
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