| 单词 | a merry grig |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa merry (or †mad) grig a. a merry (or †mad) grig (rarely without adjective): an extravagantly lively person, one who is full of frolic and jest. Also in phrase as merry (or lively) as a grig. [Commonly associated with sense 4; but it is possible that sense 4 is itself merely an erroneous inference from the equivalence of the above phrases with ‘a merry crick’, ‘merry as a cricket’; if so, the allusion in ‘a merry grig’ may originally have been to sense 3 or even to sense 2. The relation of merry grig to the earlier recorded synonym merry Greek is obscure; no doubt one of them must have been a perversion of the other, but the difference of recorded date is too slight to afford ground for saying that merry Greek is the original. The probability seems indeed rather on the other side, as it is not easy to explain why Greek should be used in this sense, for which there is no precedent in French. Compare also gig n.1] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > frolicker wantonc1450 friskera1549 a merry (or mad) grig1566 friskin1596 uptails1602 gamester1616 romp1678 romper?1780 frolicker1801 skylarker1818 larker1826 rollicker1837 larrikin1868 rompster1893 jive-ass1964 the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [adjective] blitheOE merryOE golikc1175 lustya1225 playfulc1225 jollyc1305 merrya1350 jocund?c1380 galliardc1386 in (also on) a (merry, etc.) pinc1395 mirthfula1400 baudec1400 gayc1400 jovy1426 jocantc1440 crank1499 envoisiesa1500 as merry as a cricket1509 pleasant1530 frolic?1548 jolious1575 gleeful1586 buxom1590 gleesome1590 festival1592 laughter-loving1592 disposed1593 jucund1596 heartsomec1600 jovial1607 jovialist1610 laughsome1612 jocundary1618 gaysome1633 chirpinga1637 jovialissime1652 airy1654 festivous1654 hilarous1659 spleneticala1661 cocket1671 cranny1673 high1695 vogie1715 raffing?1719 festal1724 as merry (or lively) as a grig1728 hearty1755 tittuping1772 festive1774 fun-loving1776 mirthsome1787 Falstaffian1809 cranky1811 laughful1825 as lively as a cricket1832 hurrah1835 hilarious1838 Bacchic1865 laughterful1874 griggish1879 banzai1929 slap-you-on-the-back1932 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Bvv A merry grigge, a iocande frende. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 4 A company of merrie grigs you must think them to be. 1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. C2 Whilst I And my mad Grigs, my men can runne at base. a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor iii. iii. 50 in Five New Playes (1659) Ile to my Griggs Again; And there will find new mirth to stretch And laugh. a1726 J. Vanbrugh Journey to London (1728) i. ii. 9 A very pretty civil young Woman truly, and the Maids are the merriest Griggs. 1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband v. i. 77 Man. I thought you had all Supt at home last Night? Sir Fran. Why so we did—and all as merry as Grigs. 1760 O. Goldsmith in Brit. Mag. Oct. 579/2 I grew as merry as a grig, and laughed at every word that was spoken. 1810 Splendid Follies I. 176 She capered mighty consequentially, and yet she has no bold appearance; but that nation [the French] are such a set of grigs, I don't wonder at it. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. l. 75 I shall be as merry as a grig among these gentry. 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xviii. 161 Her aunt..has turned as lively as a grig. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters viii. 200 To such a man, this grig of a girl, ever on the alert for roguery,..is an absolute abomination. 1868 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. 65 When I was a young grig—not very full of hope about my woman's future. < as lemmas |
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