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Grig vs Gril - What's the difference?

grig | gril |

As a noun grig

is little creature.

As a verb grig

is to irritate or annoy.

As an adjective gril is

harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough.

grig

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • little creature;
  • # A cricket or grasshopper.
  • #* 1926 , Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist (Ch. 5):
  • The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig .
  • # An insect in the family Prophalangopsidae, related to katydids
  • # Any small eel.
  • # The broad-nosed eel. See glut
  • heath.
    • (Audrey)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To irritate or annoy.

    • gril

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough
    • (Webster 1913) ----