gril

English

Etymology

From Middle English grille, from Old English gril (“harsh”), akin to German grell (“offending the ear or eye, shrill, dazzling”).

Adjective

gril (comparative more gril, superlative most gril)

1. (obsolete) harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gril”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Girl, LIRG, girl

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrɪl]

Noun

1. grill, barbecue

Related terms

• grilovat

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Dalmatian

Etymology

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Noun

gril

1. cricket

References

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle High German grille (“cricket”) (modern Grille). Perhaps the shift in sense is due to a conflation of crickets with earwigs, involving the popular myth of insects which crawl through the ears to lay eggs in the brain, altering a person's behaviour.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

gril f or m (plural grillen, diminutive grilletje n)

1. caprice, whim, impulse

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. grill (for cooking)

Derived terms

• griller

Further reading

• “gril”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norman

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin crātīcula (“gridiron”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *kor(ə)t-, *krāt- (“to weave, twist, wattle; wicker”).

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. (Jersey) grill

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Noun

gril (definite accusative grili, plural griller)

1. grill (barbecue)

Synonyms

• ızgara