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Jun 3, 2009
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with Anu Garggrig
PRONUNCIATION:
(grig)
MEANING:
noun:1. A cricket or grasshopper. 2. A small or young eel. 3. A lively or lighthearted person. ETYMOLOGY:
The word is often used in the phrase "merry as a grig". The word is
of uncertain origin, though various theories have been suggested, such
as a corruption of "merry as a cricket" or "merry as a Greek", as in
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Then she's a merry Greek indeed."
USAGE:
"When all is reversed and we shall be like the insane, to whom the antics
of the sane seem the crazy twistings of a grig."E.B. White; Removal; 1938. "I walked into my local branch of Boots the Chemist as merry as a grig, with a twinkle in my eye and an annoying whistle on my lips." The Weasel; Independent (London, UK); Jun 8, 1996. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong. -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)
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