Etymology

grice

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Today it means: A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct. Full definition →

Middle English gris ← Old Norse gríss
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grice · noun1

  1. Old Norse · derived fromgríss“male pig; pigling”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromgris
  3. English todaygrice

From Middle English gris, from Old Norse gríss (“male pig; pigling”). Compare Old Dutch gristo, gristio (“boar, wild boar”).

grice · verb2

Back-formation from gricer.

grice · noun3

Formed by analogy with lice and mice as the plurals of louse and mouse.

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