griller

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: grĭl′ər
• (Received Pronunciation, Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪl.ə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪl.əɹ/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹəl.ə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪl.əɾ/, /ˈɡɹɪl.ʌɾ/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾɪl.ɜː(ɾ)/, /ˈɡɾɪl.əɾ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: grill‧er

Etymology 1

From grill + -er (agent noun suffix), or from grill + -er (patient suffix).

(centrist or apolitical person): Associated with an online meme of a person who obliviously grills burgers at home instead of thinking about politics.

Noun

griller (plural grillers)

1. One who, or that which, grills.
   • 2002, Karen Adler, Judith M. Fertig, Fish & Shellfish, Grilled & Smoked: […]‎^[1], Boston, MA: The Harvard Common Press, →LCCN, →OL, page 6:

     For the novice fish griller, firm-fleshed fish steaks (salmon, tuna, swordfish, shark) will be the easiest to grill.

2. Food suitable for grilling.
   • 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[2]:

     Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […]

3. (Internet slang) A politically centrist or apolitical individual, often with implications of intellectual laziness and/or spinelessness.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

griller

1. comparative form of grill: more grill

Further reading

• “griller”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

From grille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁi.je/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: gril‧ler

Verb

griller

1. to toast (cook with a toaster)
2. to grill (cook with a grill)
3. (intransitive) to toast (heat up, said of e.g. skin)
4. (colloquial) to smoke (a cigarette)
   • 2005 [1963], Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, Payot & Rivages, →ISBN; republished as Robyn Marsack, transl., The Way of the World, 2011, →ISBN:

     Puis je restais là, étendu dans le noir, à griller une cigarette et regarder dans ma tête jusqu'à ce que des poings impatients qui martelaient la porte m'obligent à céder la place.

     — Then I would linger on, stretched out in the dark, having a smoke and meditating, until impatient fists hammering on the door made me give up my place.

   • 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 27; republished as Frank Wynne, transl., Vernon Subutex One‎, 2017:

     Il connaît, autour de chez lui, les entrées de bureaux, là où les gens sortent en griller une dans la journée et il lui arrive de passer et de ralentir, il ramasse les mégots les plus longs.

     He knows all the local office doorways where workers huddle for a quick cancer stick during the day, and sometimes as he walks past he slows, picks out the longest stubs.

5. (transport) to run; to pass a stop signal or stop sign, or without yielding right of way (at duty to yield)
   • 2015 June 14, “Nantes : la priorité à droite, une solution pour limiter la vitesse ?”, in ICI.fr‎^[3]:

     Et Stéphane Montfort d'ajouter : "Si vous avez un accrochage après avoir grillé une priorité à droite, c'est vous qui êtes en tort".

     And Stéphane Montfort adds : "If you have a collision after having run a priority to the right, it is you who is at fault".

Conjugation

Conjugation of griller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	griller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	grillant /ɡʁi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		grillé /ɡʁi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	grille /ɡʁij/	grilles /ɡʁij/	grille /ɡʁij/	grillons /ɡʁi.jɔ̃/	grillez /ɡʁi.je/	grillent /ɡʁij/
	imperfect	grillais /ɡʁi.jɛ/	grillais /ɡʁi.jɛ/	grillait /ɡʁi.jɛ/	grillions /ɡʁij.jɔ̃/	grilliez /ɡʁij.je/	grillaient /ɡʁi.jɛ/
	past historic2	grillai /ɡʁi.je/	grillas /ɡʁi.ja/	grilla /ɡʁi.ja/	grillâmes /ɡʁi.jam/	grillâtes /ɡʁi.jat/	grillèrent /ɡʁi.jɛʁ/
	future	grillerai /ɡʁij.ʁe/	grilleras /ɡʁij.ʁa/	grillera /ɡʁij.ʁa/	grillerons /ɡʁij.ʁɔ̃/	grillerez /ɡʁij.ʁe/	grilleront /ɡʁij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	grillerais /ɡʁij.ʁɛ/	grillerais /ɡʁij.ʁɛ/	grillerait /ɡʁij.ʁɛ/	grillerions /ɡʁi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	grilleriez /ɡʁi.jə.ʁje/	grilleraient /ɡʁij.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	grille /ɡʁij/	grilles /ɡʁij/	grille /ɡʁij/	grillions /ɡʁij.jɔ̃/	grilliez /ɡʁij.je/	grillent /ɡʁij/
	imperfect2	grillasse /ɡʁi.jas/	grillasses /ɡʁi.jas/	grillât /ɡʁi.ja/	grillassions /ɡʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/	grillassiez /ɡʁi.ja.sje/	grillassent /ɡʁi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	grille /ɡʁij/	—	grillons /ɡʁi.jɔ̃/	grillez /ɡʁi.je/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• grille-pain
• pain grillé

Related terms

• gril
• grille-pain

Descendants

• → Swedish: griljera

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

griller m

1. indefinite plural of grill

Verb

griller

1. present of grille

Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gril‧ler

Noun

griller

1. strange ideas

   sätta griller i huvudet på någon ― to put strange ideas in someone's head

References

• “griller”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “griller”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “griller”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)