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Grime vs Grice - What's the difference?

grime | grice |

As nouns the difference between grime and grice

is that grime is dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove while 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.

As verbs the difference between grime and grice

is that grime is to begrime; to cake with dirt while grice is to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.

As a proper noun Grime

is {{surname|A=An|English}}, probably derived from Old Norse grimr or grimmr

grime

English

(wikipedia grime)

Noun

(-)
  • Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=14 citation , passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall.  Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime .}}
  • (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.

    • Related terms

    * grimy (pos a)

    Verb

    (grim)
  • To begrime; to cake with dirt
  • * {{quote-book, year=1862, author=Edwin Waugh, title=Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=All grimed with coaldust, they swing along the street with their dinner baskets and cans in their hands, chattering merrily.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, author=Harold Bindloss, title=Lister's Great Adventure, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Fog from the river rolled up the street and the windows were grimed by soot, but Cartwright had not turned on the electric light.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Harold Bindloss, title=The Buccaneer Farmer, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=His skin was grimed with dust, for he had ridden hard in scorching heat, and was anxious and impatient to get on.}} ----

    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) ----