Definitions for grigs

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Spelling: [grig]
IPA: /grɪg/

Grigs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in grigs (ggirs).

Definitions for grigs

noun

  1. a cricket or grasshopper.
  2. a small or young eel.
  3. a lively person.

Origin of grigs

1350-1400; Middle English grig, grege; origin uncertain

Examples for grigs

Arden announced blandly that she no longer felt “merry as a grig.”

Of course it may have been for the best that it turned out as it did, but—damn it all, grig, she was worth while!

Still the original may have been "as merry as a grig," the grig or young eel being so lively and vivacious.

As for himself, he was always as merry as a grig, and no fool, either.

Mrs. Pendyce murmured: "Of course, dear grig, I quite understand."

Mr. Mooney was so absent, that when the old gentleman said to him, “Shake hands with Mr. grig,” he put out his leg.

Roy loved and obeyed Polly almost as readily as Peggy, and cavorted off beside her as gay as a grig.

grig (greg in Sligo): a boy with sugarstick holds it out to another and says, 'grig, grig,' to triumph over him.

The grig did not seem to mind them going in the least, and kept on dancing about and shrieking with laughter.

grig must blush at first to give his orders to old men in every way his betters.

Word Value for grigs
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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