grise

See also: Grise and grisé

English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

grise (plural grises)

  1. (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
    • Shakespeare
      Every grise of fortune / Is smoothed by that below.

Etymology 2

Noun

grise (plural grises)

  1. Alternative form of grice (a pig)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for grise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From gris (“pig”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡriːsə/, [ˈɡ̊ʁiːsə], [ˈɡ̊ʁiːs̩]

Noun

grise c

  1. plural indefinite of gris

Verb

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

  1. dirty
  2. mess up

Synonyms

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡʁiz/
  • Homophone: grises

Adjective

grise

  1. feminine singular of gris

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Norman

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

Synonyms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From gris (“pig”).

Verb

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

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

Synonyms

References
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