Grice vs Grike - What's the difference?
grice | grike |
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,
*: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,
*: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.
(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.
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*{{quote-magazine
, year=2005
, Month=August
, volume=151
, issue=1252
, page=55
, magazine=The Railway Magazine
, publisher=IPC Business Press
*{{quote-book
, year=2010
, author=Adam Jacot de Boinod
, title=I Never Knew There Was a Word For It
, chapter=Gricer's Daughter
(chiefly, British) A deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants
:* 1922': He climbed over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant in a '''grike . — James Joyce, ''Ulysses
:* 1973': The Crag is a sort of crag-shaped feature of limestone, rich in minerals and seamed with crevasses or ‘'''grikes ’ as they call them hereabouts. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, ''Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 157)
As nouns the difference between grice and grike
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 while grike is a deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants.As a verb grice
is to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.grice
English
Etymology 1
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Etymology 2
Verb
(gric)citation, passage=We can also roganise photo charters, large group footplate courses and gricing holidays [...] }}
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. }}
