Grig vs Brig - What's the difference?
grig | brig |
little creature;
# A cricket or grasshopper.
#* 1926 , Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist (Ch. 5):
# An insect in the family Prophalangopsidae, related to katydids
# Any small eel.
# The broad-nosed eel. See glut
heath.
To irritate or annoy.
(nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
(US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
As nouns the difference between grig and brig
is that grig is little creature; while brig is force, power.As a verb grig
is to irritate or annoy.grig
English
Noun
(en noun)- The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig .
- (Audrey)