A grig is a cricket, grasshopper, young eel, or a lively person, often used in the phrase "merry as a grig."
A grig is a cricket, grasshopper, young eel, or a lively person, often used in the phrase "merry as a grig."
| Front | grig \grig\ |
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| Back | noun 1. A cricket or grasshopper. 2. A small or young eel. 3. A lively or lighthearted person. [The word is often used in the phrase "merry as a grig". The word is of uncertain origin, though various theories have been suggested, such as a corruption of "merry as a cricket" or "merry as a Greek", as in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Then she's a merry Greek indeed."] "When all is reversed and we shall be like the insane, to whom the antics of the sane seem the crazy twistings of a grig." |
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