GRIG

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A cricket or grasshopper. [Prov. Eng.]

2.
n.

Any small eel.

3.
n.

The broad-nosed eel See Glut. [Prov. Eng.]

4.
n.

Heath. [Prov. Eng.] Audrey. As merry as a grig Etym: [etymology uncertain], a saying supposed by some to be a corruption of "As merry as a Greek; " by others, to be an allusion to the cricket.

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