grig
/grig/US // grɪg //UK // (ɡrɪɡ) //
格雷格,磨床,磨床上的
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Northern British Dialect.
- : a cricket or grasshopper.
- : a small or young eel.
- : a lively person.
Examples
Hard is her heart as flint or stone,She laughs to see me pale; And merry as a grig is grown,And brisk as bottled ale.
I drove through that region with my father when I was a young grig—not very full of hope about my woman's future.
Roy loved and obeyed Polly almost as readily as Peggy, and cavorted off beside her as gay as a grig.
Grig (greg in Sligo): a boy with sugarstick holds it out to another and says, 'grig, grig,' to triumph over him.
Pinched for standing-room, the comical old grig laughs and lies down!
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