Grice Definition

noun

(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.

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(obsolete) A gree; a step.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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verb

(UK, rail transport, slang) To act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.

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Other Word Forms of Grice

Noun

Singular:
grice
Plural:
grices

Origin of Grice

  • Unknown, possibly from Richard Grice, the first champion trainspotter, alternatively perhaps a humorous representation of an upper-class pronunciation of grouser (“grouse-shooter"). In either case the derivation could be direct or a back-formation from gricer.

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  • From Old Norse gríss.

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Grice Sentence Examples

  • On Grice's picture, what is said is tightly constrained by linguistic meaning.

  • I'll still be here next year, says defiant Blair Independent, UK - 16 Jul 2006 By Andrew Grice, Political Editor.

  • The principal landowners are Lord Lonsdale, lord of the manor; Richard Grice, Esq.

  • It seems to me not unreasonable to suppose that Grice had similar inclinations.

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Words Starting With

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