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Grig vs Grog - What's the difference?

grig | grog |

As nouns the difference between grig and grog

is that grig is little creature; while grog is (label) an alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the royal navy.

As a verb grig

is to irritate or annoy.

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.
  • grog

    English

    (wikipedia grog)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (label) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
  • Any alcoholic beverage.
  • An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.
  • A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.
  • Synonyms

    * (ground clay) firesand

    Derived terms

    * groggy

    References

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