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Is grig a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word grig is a Scrabble US word. The word grig is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is grig a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word grig is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

G2R1I1G2

Is grig a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word grig is a Words With Friends word. The word grig is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

GRIG,RIGG,

3-letter words (3 found)

GIG,IGG,RIG,

2-letter words (1 found)

GI,

You can make 6 words from grig according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of grig

grig rgig girg igrg rigg irgg grgi rggi ggri ggri rggi grgi gigr iggr ggir ggir iggr gigr rigg irgg rgig grig igrg girg

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Definitions and meaning of grig

grig

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹɪɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪɡ
  • Homophone: Grigg

Etymology 1

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 William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Then she's a merry Greek indeed." Johnson suggested that the word originally meant "anything below the natural size" (compare Swedish krik and Scots crick).

Noun

grig (plural grigs)

  1. (obsolete) A dwarf.
  2. A cricket or grasshopper.
  3. A small or young eel.
    • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 41:
      [W]e assembled at one o'clock, at two sat down to dinner, consisting of capital stewed grigs, a dish Mrs Burt was famous for dressing, a large joint of roast or boiled meat, with proper vegetables and a good-sized pudding or pie […] .
  4. Specifically, the broad-nosed eel. See glut.
Derived terms
  • merry as a grig

Etymology 2

From Welsh grug, Cornish grig.

Noun

grig (plural grigs)

  1. (UK, dialect) Heath or heather.

Etymology 3

Verb

grig (third-person singular simple present grigs, present participle grigging, simple past and past participle grigged)

  1. (transitive) To irritate or annoy.

Anagrams

  • Rigg

Yola

Etymology

Cognate with English grig.

Verb

grig

  1. To tantalize by showing without sharing a thing.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 43

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