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plural grigs
(obsolete) A dwarf.
A cricket or grasshopper. quotations examples
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
A small or young eel. quotations examples
[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
Specifically, the broad-nosed eel. See glut. examples
(UK, dialect) Heath or heather. quotations examples
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
third-person singular simple present grigs, present participle grigging, simple past and past participle grigged
(transitive) To irritate or annoy. examples