grise

See also: Grise and grisé

English

Etymology 1

Properly the plural of gree (“a step”).

Alternative forms

• greeze, greese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹiːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

grise (plural grises)

1. (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Every grise of fortune / Is smoothed by that below.

Etymology 2

See grice.

Noun

grise (plural grises)

1. Alternative form of grice (a pig)(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
   • [1883 April 7, F.C. Birkbeck Terry, Notes and Queries, page 274:

     Grice or Grise, a Swine (6^th S. vi. 537) — This word is derived from O.N. griss, porcellus.]

   • 1892, Hugh Alexander MacPherson, “Wild Boar”, in A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland Including Cumberland and Westmorland with Lancashire North of the Sands, page l:

     ‘Grise,’ observe Nicolson and Burn, ‘is a common name for swine, and it may well seem to have taken its name from being frequented by wild boars, which are beasts of the forest. […] Swinedale,’ they add (probably in error), ‘may be so called from Wild Boars having frequented there ; as there are Grisedale, Boredale, Stybarrow, in the neighbouring parish of Barton ; and Wildboarfell

   • 1912 March 2, “Replies. Grise : Grey : Badger”, in Notes and Queries, page 170:

     ‘Grice’ was used to designate the young of the badger, because the male and female were known as the boar pig and the sow. […]
     So that from this it is perfectly clear that the word ‘grice’ or ‘grise,’ when used in connexion with badgers’ young, simply means the little badger pigs, and has nothing whatever to do with gris = grey.

Anagrams

• Resig, geris, gires, gries

References

• “grise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Danish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡ̊ʁiːsə]
• Rhymes: -iːsə

Noun

grise c

1. indefinite plural of gris

Etymology 2

From gris (“pig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡ̊ʁisə]

Verb

grise (imperative gris, infinitive at grise, present tense griser, past tense grisede, perfect tense er/har griset)

1. dirty
2. mess up

Synonyms

• svine

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁiz/

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• Homophone: grises

Adjective

grise

1. feminine singular of gris

Anagrams

• gésir, gires, Régis

Norman

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Adjective

grise

1. feminine singular of gris

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From gris (“pig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡriːsə/

Verb

grise (imperative gris, present tense griser, passive grises, simple past grisa or griset or griste, past participle grisa or griset or grist, present participle grisende)

1. to farrow, give birth to piglets (of a female pig)
2. grise til - to dirty, to mess up

Synonyms

• svine

References

• “grise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “grise” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• grisa

Etymology

From gris (“pig”).

Verb

grise (present tense grisar, past tense grisa, past participle grisa, passive infinitive grisast, present participle grisande, imperative grise/gris)

1. to farrow, give birth to piglets (of a female pig)
2. grise til - to dirty, to mess up

Synonyms

• svine

References

• “grise” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Verb

grīse

1. first-person singular present indicative of grīsan

Portuguese

Verb

grise

1. inflection of grisar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative