grice

May. 20th, 2025 07:23 am
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grice (GRAIS) - n., (chiefly Scot.) a young pig, the meat of a young pig; a breed of pig, now extinct, of the Highlands and Scottish Islands.


Plus a few other meanings, such as an alternate spelling of grece, an English dialect word meaning a flight of stairs, and as a slang verb, to trainspot. I honestly don't remember which sense was being used when I came across this and jotted it down, but it was probably the main entry above -- a sense that goes back to Middle English in the form gris, itself from Old Norse grĂ­ss, piglet.

---L.

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