grif

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Noun

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grif (plural grifs)

  1. (dated or historical) Alternative form of griffe (person of mixed (black and white) race)
    • 1807, François Raymond J. de Pons, Travels in South America, during ... 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804. Transl, page 249:
      His colour is nearly that of a grif or cobb, the produce of a mulatto and negro.
    • 1992, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 263:
      [] in the inventory of the estate of Jean Decuir in 1771, she was listed as one of 3 mulatto children of a grif mother.
    • 2012, Andrew Sluyter, Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 82:
      Lisette also had two older daughters: Magdaleine, born in 1749; and Francoise, born in 1753 and variously identified as a grif or mulatto.
    • 2017, Terry Rey, The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50:
      [This] author of one of the most detailed contemporary discussions about the prophetess and the Trou Coffy insurgency, was the first on record to refer to the prophetess as a “grif,” meaning someone born to one black and one mulatto parent.

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Catalan

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Noun

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grif m (plural grifs)

  1. Alternative form of griu

Dutch

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Etymology

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Probably by contraction from an older form *gerif, in that form attested in East Frisian and in Gronings, cognate with Dutch gerief (amenity).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɪf
  • IPA(key): /ɣrɪf/

Adjective

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grif (comparative griffer, superlative grifst)

  1. prompt, without hesitation, ready
  2. eager

Declension

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Declension of grif
uninflected grif
inflected griffe
comparative griffer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial grif griffer het grifst
het grifste
indefinite m./f. sing. griffe griffere grifste
n. sing. grif griffer grifste
plural griffe griffere grifste
definite griffe griffere grifste
partitive grifs griffers

Synonyms

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From German Griff.

Noun

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grif m (Cyrillic spelling гриф)

  1. (Kajkavian) grip
  2. (Kajkavian) handle