grice
see also: Grice
Pronunciation
Grice
Proper noun
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see also: Grice
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ɡɹʌɪs/
grice (plural grice)
- (now Scotland) A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.
- 1728, Robert Lindsay, The history of Scotland, from 21 February, 1436. to March, 1565: in which are contained accounts of many remarkable passages altogether differing from our other historians, and many facts are related, either concealed by some, or omitted by others, publ. Mr. Baskett and Company, pg.146 ↗:
- Further, there was of meats wheat bread, main-bread and ginge-bread with fleshes, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, venison, goose, grice, capon, coney, cran, swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock and pawnies, black-cock and muir-fowl, cappercaillies;
- 1789, William Thomson, Mammuth: or, human nature displayed on a grand scale: in a tour with the tinkers, into the inland parts of Africa. By the man in the moon. In two volumes. publ. G. and T. Wilkie, pg.105 ↗:
- Through a door to one of the galleries, left half open on purpose I was attracted to a dainty hot supper, consisting of stewed mushrooms and the fat paps and ears of very young pigs, or, as they call them, grice.
- 2006, "Extinct island pig spotted again," BBC News, 17 November 2006, :
- A model of the grice - which was the size of a large dog and had tusks - has been created after work by researchers and a taxidermist.
- 1728, Robert Lindsay, The history of Scotland, from 21 February, 1436. to March, 1565: in which are contained accounts of many remarkable passages altogether differing from our other historians, and many facts are related, either concealed by some, or omitted by others, publ. Mr. Baskett and Company, pg.146 ↗:
grice (grices, present participle gricing; past and past participle griced)
- (UK, rail transport, slang) to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.
grice (plural grices)
Grice
Proper noun
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