different between grig vs grog

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

The word is often used in the phrase "merry as a grig". The word is of uncertain origin, though various theories have been suggested, such as a corruption of "merry as a cricket" or "merry as a Greek", as in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Then she's a merry Greek indeed." Johnson suggested that the word originally meant "anything below the natural size" (compare Swedish krik and Scots crick).

Noun

grig (plural grigs)

1. (obsolete) A dwarf.
2. A cricket or grasshopper.
   • 1926, Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist (Ch. 5):

     The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig.

3. A small or young eel.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 41:

     [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 […] .

4. Specifically, the broad-nosed eel. See glut.

Etymology 2

From Welsh grug, Cornish grig.

Noun

grig (plural grigs)

1. (Britain, dialect) Heath or heather.
   • 1791, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, Transactions of the Society of Arts (volume 9, page 80)

     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, […]

Etymology 3

Verb

grig (third-person singular simple present grigs, present participle grigging, simple past and past participle grigged)

1. (transitive) To irritate or annoy.

Anagrams

• Rigg

Yola

Etymology

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Verb

grig

1. to tantalize by showing without sharing a thing.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habitually wore), who in 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down.

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /????/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

grog (countable and uncountable, plural grogs)

1. (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
2. (by extension, Australia, New Zealand) Any alcoholic beverage.
3. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
4. An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.
5. (ceramics) A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

   Synonyms: chamotte, firesand

Derived terms

• groggery
• groggy
• grogshop

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: grogue

Translations

Further reading

• grog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• gorg

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Noun

grog m (plural grogs)

1. grog (drink made from rum)

Further reading

• “grog” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French grog.

Noun

grog n (plural groguri)

1. grog

Declension

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro??/

Adjective

grog

1. Soft mutation of crog.

Mutation