Meaning of grig | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dwarf.
   obsolete
2. Heath or heather.
   UK, dialectal
3. A cricket or grasshopper.
4. A small or young eel.
5. Specifically, the broad-nosed eel. See glut.

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.”

“[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 […] .”

“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, […]”

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