Meaning of Greek | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture
2. The language spoken by people of Greece, particularly, depending on context, Ancient Greek or Modern Greek.
   countable, uncountable
3. A person from Greece or of Greek descent.
   countable
4. Alternative letter-case form of Greek (“nonsense writing or talk; gibberish”).
   alt-of
5. Synonym of incomprehensible, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects
6. The written form of these languages.
   countable, uncountable
7. Alternative letter-case form of Greek (“anal sex”).
   alt-of
8. Greek cuisine, traditional or representative Greek food.
   uncountable
9. Of or relating to Greece or its people, language, or culture.
10. Of or relating to collegiate fraternities, sororities, or honor societies
11. A surname.
    countable, uncountable
12. Synonym of gibberish, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
    colloquial, figuratively, uncountable
13. The Indo-European language of the Greeks.
14. The language spoken by people of Greece, particularly, depending on context, Ancient Greek or Modern Greek
15. Synonym of lorem ipsum, dummy placeholder text used in greeking.
    colloquial, figuratively, metonymically, uncountable
16. A native or inhabitant of Greece.
17. The written form of these languages
18. A member of a collegiate fraternity or sorority.
    US, colloquial, countable, metonymically
19. Informal A member of a fraternity or sorority that has its name composed of Greek letters.
    Informal
20. A cunning rogue.
    archaic, countable, slang
21. Informal Something that is unintelligible: Quantum mechanics is Greek to me.
    Informal
22. A merry fellow.
    archaic, countable, slang
23. (Languages) the official language of Greece, constituting the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. See Ancient Greek, Late Greek, Medieval Greek, Modern Greek
24. Anal sex.
    slang, uncountable
25. (Peoples) a native or inhabitant of Greece or a descendant of such a native
26. One of the Greeks, measures of derivative price sensitivity.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
27. (Eastern Church (Greek & Russian Orthodox)) a member of the Greek Orthodox Church
28. informal anything incomprehensible (esp in the phrase it's (all) Greek to me)
    informal
29. Greek meets Greek equals meet

Equivalents

Examples

“For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought to laugh, or how the actors acted, and between this foreign people and ourselves there is not only difference of race and tongue but a tremendous breach of tradition. All the more strange, then, is it that we should wish to know Greek, try to know Greek, feel for ever drawn back to Greek, and be for ever making up some notion of the meaning of Greek, though from what incongruous odds and ends, with what slight resemblance to the real meaning of Greek, who shall say?”

“It’s one that I would personally endorse: My individual circumstances were such that, by the age of 12, I could speak German, Greek and English, so languages became my passion and my hobby.”

“The Greeks believed the sun went round the earth.”

“"I don't hear one word in ten that they say," continued Mrs. Abingdon; "it's Greek to me. However, ..."”

“"It's all Greek to me," said my companion at the outset, but as the warrior continued, his fears arose within him; it might be sentence of death—what did he know what it might not be?”

“preferred risk... family maintenance... 20-pay life. That's a bare sampling of the merchandise you're asked to pick and choose from. If it sounds like Greek to you, don't worry. It sounds like Greek to most people.”

“Was Joe a Greek in college?”

“The wind-up is, that the father becomes bankrupt; the wife and daughters town-traders; the sons Greeks, Fancy-swells, Conveyancers (pickpockets), or Cracksmen (house breakers), and the New Drop is the last drop they ever take.”

“When Greek meets Greek neither is wont to get much satisfaction.”

“She is absolutely a total GFE, no limits, except no Greek. (Well...I say “no Greek” - - if she is really hot for you, and if she is really turned on in a long session, she might beg for a finger in her anus while you suck her clit, but she is just too tiny and tight for any “real meat” in the backdoor.)”

““What's within reason?” “Hand-job, blow-job, full sex — straight, full service. Greek, maybe, if you're not too big. Golden shower, if you like, but not reverse. No hardsports. And absolutely nothing without.””

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