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Grig   Listen
noun
Grig  n.  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A cricket or grasshopper. (Prov. Eng.)
(b)
Any small eel.
(c)
The broad-nosed eel. See Glut. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
Heath. (Prov. Eng.)
As merry as a grig, 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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