单词 | grice |
释义 | gricen.1 Obsolete exc. Scottish and archaic. 1. a. A pig, esp. a young pig, a sucking pig; †occasionally and spec. in Heraldry, a wild boar. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] swineOE hogOE grice?c1225 pig?a1425 pork?a1425 grunterc1440 gussie15.. grunting-cheat1567 snorter1601 sow's-baby1699 grumphie1786 piggy-wig1870 turf-hog1880 troughster1892 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > young farrowa700 grice?c1225 piga1250 hogling1377 porketa1555 porkling1561 porkin1570 swine shoat1581 hog-babe1610 hoglet1611 pigling1612 piggy1625 gruntling1686 porkrel1694 piggy-wiggy1766 griceling1782 boneen1827 slip1832 piglet1839 slip-pig1844 squeaker1861 piggy-wig1870 snork1891 snorker1891 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 152 Þe suȝe of ȝiuernesse haueð gris [a1250 Nero pigges]. þus þet beoð inempned. c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbysw. in Wright Voc. 174 Porceus, gryses. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ix. 36 Þe Sarzenes also bringes furth na grysez, ne þai ete na swyne flessch. c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 32 Sir, þer walkes in my way A well grim gryse. He is a balefulle bare. c1480 (a1400) St. Blaise 119 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 364 I pray þe þat sume helpe þu wil gyf me þat, bot a gryse, had gud nane. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. vi. 72 A grete sow fereit of grysis thretty heid. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. x. xii. f. 143v/2 Ane swyne yt etis hir grisis, salbe stanit to deid. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 124 Na Castellane may enter within ane Burges house to slay his swyne, gryses, geise, or hennes. 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair iv. viii. 77 As a swineherd puts in poke a grice. 1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Grices, young wild boars, but boars are sometimes called grices, and so blazoned in allusion to the bearer's name. 1899 J. Colville Sc. Vernacular 15 Beginning life as a grice, the pig when speaned became a shot. b. The singular form used as plural or collective.? On analogy of the plurals mice, lice. ΚΠ 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 105 Hote pies, hote! Goode gees and grys! 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iv. 38 Bothe my gees and my grys his gadelynges fetten. c1476 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 39 As for geese, grise, hennys, & copons, your said tenants may none keepe, but they are..stolen away by night. 1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 101 He is come thither to hunt, and catch his Lords Greese [margin ‘Wild swyne’]. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Meles (badger) > young pigc1440 gricea1637 a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd ii. ii. 39 in Wks. (1640) III This fine Smooth Bawsons Cub, the young Grice of a Gray [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1863 G. A. Sala Strange Adventures Capt. Dangerous II. vii. 225 They burrowed like so many Grice.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] swine flesheOE porkc1300 baconc1330 brawn1377 pig1381 pork flesh?a1425 boara1475 gricea1475 hog flesh1528 hog meat1573 grunting-peck1699 hog1744 pigmeat1754 a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 54 Bothe grys and vele and rostyd motone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † gricen.2 Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Poule griesche, a Moorehenne; the henne of the Grice, or Mooregame. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). > as lemmasgrice grice v. and n. [as a back-formation] ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > observing or watching > specific stargazing1928 skywatch1952 birding1956 gricing1968 grice1971 owling1984 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > observe or watch > observe trains grice1971 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > spotting trains, watching birds, etc. > [noun] bird-spotting1926 trainspotting1951 loco-spotting1952 gricing1968 grice1971 twitching1977 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > spotting trains, watching birds, etc. > spot trains, watch birds, etc. [verb (transitive)] spot1913 grice1971 twitch1977 1971 Railway Mag. Apr. 196/2 The Greater British Gricer is on the grice. 1976 Railway Mag. Aug. 434/1 (advt.) Swiss transport extravaganza inc. six special steam trains, paddle steamers, ‘tunnel grice’, vintage saloons on Rhaetian Railway. 1984 P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) Grice or gricer, an engine-spotter... Also as v., to grice, to watch locomotives. < n.1?c1225n.21611 as lemmas |
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