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grit
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English gr?ot, from Proto-Germanic *greut? (compare German Grieß, Swedish gryta, Norwegian Nynorsk grjot), from Proto-Indo-European *g?r-eu-d- (compare Lithuanian grúodas (“frost; frozen street dirt”), Serbo-Croatian gr?da (“lump”)).
Noun
grit (uncountable)
- A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
- Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
- Inedible particles in food.
- A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
- (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
- Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of C. Reade to this entry?)
Derived terms
- gritten
- gritty
Related terms
- grind
- grindstone
- sand, sandy, sandblasting
Translations
See also
- debris
- mortar and pestle
- swarf
Verb
grit (third-person singular simple present grits, present participle gritting, simple past and past participle gritted or (nonstandard) grit)
- Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
- To cover with grit.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
- 1767, Oliver Goldsmith, The Hermit
- The sanded |floor that grits beneath the tread.
- 1767, Oliver Goldsmith, The Hermit
Derived terms
- grit one's teeth
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English gryt (“bran, chaff”), from Old English grytt, from Proto-Germanic *grutj? (“coarsely ground bits”) (compare Dutch grut, German Grütze), ablaut variant of Proto-Indo-European *g?r-eu-d-. See above.
Noun
grit (plural grits)
- (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
- (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
Related terms
- groat
- grout
- gruel
Translations
Anagrams
- girt, trig
Scots
Adjective
grit (comparative mair grit, superlative maist grit)
- great
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bellicosity
English
Etymology
bellicose +? -osity
Pronunciation
- (non-merged vowel) IPA(key): /?b?l??k?s?ti/
- (merged vowel) IPA(key): /?b?l??k?s?ti/
Noun
bellicosity (countable and uncountable, plural bellicosities)
- The characteristic of being bellicose.
- 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes[1]
- The timing is intriguing too. Before this news North Korea was all bellicosity and bluster.
- 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes[1]
Synonyms
- martiality
Translations
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