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Grice vs Grease - What's the difference?

grice | grease |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between grice and grease

is that grice is (obsolete) a gree; a step while grease is (obsolete) to cheat or cozen; to overreach.

As nouns the difference between grice and grease

is that grice is a pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to scotland, now extinct or grice can be (obsolete) a gree; a step while grease is animal fat in a melted or soft state.

As verbs the difference between grice and grease

is that grice is (uk|rail transport|slang) to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting while grease is to put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.

grice

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.
  • *1728 , Robert Lindsay, The history of Scotland, from 21 February, 1436. to March, 1565: in which are contained accounts of many remarkable passages altogether differing from our other historians, and many facts are related, either concealed by some, or omitted by others , publ. Mr. Baskett and Company, pg.146:
  • *:Further, there was of meats wheat bread, main-bread and ginge-bread with fleshes, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, venison, goose, grice , capon, coney, cran, swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock and pawnies, black-cock and muir-fowl, cappercaillies;
  • *1789 , William Thomson, Mammuth: or, human nature displayed on a grand scale: in a tour with the tinkers, into the inland parts of Africa. By the man in the moon. In two volumes. publ. G. and T. Wilkie, pg.105:
  • *:Through a door to one of the galleries, left half open on purpose I was attracted to a dainty hot supper, consisting of stewed mushrooms and the fat paps and ears of very young pigs, or, as they call them, grice .
  • *2006 , "Extinct island pig spotted again," BBC News , 17 November 2006, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/6155172.stm]:
  • *:A model of the grice - which was the size of a large dog and had tusks - has been created after work by researchers and a taxidermist.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (gric)
  • (UK, rail transport, slang) to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.
  • *{{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 29 March 1999 , first = Tony , last = Polson , title = Re: Do all UK rail staff get free unlimited Eurostar travel? , newsgroup = uk.railway , url = http://groups.google.com/group/uk.railway/msg/226e540c55c506ac , passage = Many people joined the railways because the 'carrot' of a staff pass was a considerable attraction, whether for family travel or to grice at extremely low cost. }}
  • *{{quote-magazine
    • , year=2005 , Month=August , volume=151 , issue=1252 , page=55 , magazine=The Railway Magazine , publisher=IPC Business Press citation , passage=We can also roganise photo charters, large group footplate courses and gricing holidays [...] }}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=2010 , author=Adam Jacot de Boinod , title=I Never Knew There Was a Word For It , chapter=Gricer's Daughter citation , isbn=9780141028392 , page= , pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ItYq7wYG634C&pg=PT518&dq=gricing&hl=en , passage=Trainspotters may be mocked by the outside world, but they don't take criticism lying down: the language of gricing is notable for its acidic descriptions of outsiders. }}
    Related terms
    * gricer

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A gree; a step.
    • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    grease

    English

    (wikipedia grease)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Animal fat in a melted or soft state
  • (extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
  • Shorn but not yet cleansed wool
  • Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.

    • Synonyms

    * (animal fat) fat, lard

    Derived terms

    * dirty grease * elbow grease * grease-box * grease bush * grease gun / grease-gun * grease-monkey * grease moth * grease nipple * greasepaint / grease-paint * grease payment * greaseproof * greasewood * greasiness * greasy * the squeaky wheel gets the grease * greaseball

    Verb

    (greas)
  • To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
  • (informal) To bribe.
  • * Dryden
    • the greased advocate that grinds the poor
  • * {{quote-book, 2008, title=With Lyon in Missouri, author=Byron Archibald Dunn
    • , passage=Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2009, title=GOG - an End Time Mystery, author=Dan Richardson
    • , passage=His employee status didn't entitle him to one, but Magdy on reception would slip him a key if Sabr greased him with a fifty.}}
  • (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
    • ''To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
  • (slang) To kill, murder.
    • Fat cats who can't be greased by the mob's money are greased the hard way.
  • (obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
  • To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

    • Synonyms

    * (put grease or fat on) lard * (slang for kill or murder) bump off, hit, whack

    Derived terms

    * greaser * grease the hand * grease the wheels * grease someone's palm

    Anagrams

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