grass

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Etymology [edit]

From Middle English gras, gres, gers, from Old English græs, gærs (“grass, blade of grass, herb, young corn, hay, plant; pasture”), from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to grow”).

cognates

Cognate with Scots girs, gers, gress (“grass”), North Frisian gäärs, geers (“grass”), Saterland Frisian Gäärs (“grass”), West Frisian gers (“grass”), Dutch gras (“grass, turf, pasture”), German Gras (“grass, weed”), Danish græs (“grass”), Swedish gräs (“grass”), Icelandic gras (“grass”), Latin herba (“plant, weed, grass”), Albanian grath (“grass blade, spike”). Related to grow, green.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

Grass.

grass (countable and uncountable; plural grasses)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
  2. (uncountable) A lawn.
  3. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
  4. (countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
  5. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
  6. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

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Translations [edit]

ground cover plant
lawn
marijuana
informer

See also [edit]

Verb [edit]

grass (third-person singular simple present grasses, present participle grassing, simple past and past participle grassed)

  1. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
    • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:
      He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
  2. (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

Translations [edit]

to inform on

Romansch [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin crassus. Compare French graisse.

Noun [edit]

grass m

  1. fat
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