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单词 grice
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gricen.1

/ɡrʌɪs/
Forms: Middle English–1500s grise, Middle English grys, Middle English–1600s gryse, Middle English–1800s gryce, (1600s greece), 1600s– grice.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse gríss.
Etymology: < Old Norse gríss (Swedish, Danish gris) young pig, pig.
Obsolete exc. Scottish and archaic.
1.
a. A pig, esp. a young pig, a sucking pig; †occasionally and spec. in Heraldry, a wild boar.
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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.
Proverb.1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 62 Bring the Head of the Sow to the Tail of the Grice. That is, balance your Loss with your Gain.1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xi. 239 An' I am to lose by ye, I'se ne'er deny I hae won by ye mony a fair pund sterling—Sae, an' it come to the warst, I'se e'en lay the head o' the sow to the tail o' the grice.
b. The singular form used as plural or collective.? On analogy of the plurals mice, lice.
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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’].
c. transferred. The young of a badger (see pig n.1). Obsolete. rare.
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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.]
2. The flesh of a ‘grice’, pork. Obsolete. rare.
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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

Etymology: Apparently Cotgrave's assimilation of grouse to the French grièche ( < Latin type *Graecisca , feminine of *Graeciscus : see Greekish adj. and n.), as in poule , perdrix grièche ; erroneously taken by some etymologists to be the original of grouse n.1
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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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).

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grice
grice v. and n. [as a back-formation]
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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.
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