grimsir

English

Etymology

From Middle English grym-syre; equivalent to grim +‎ sir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪmsɜː(ɹ)/

Noun

grimsir (plural grimsirs)

1. (obsolete) A stern man.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     I have an old grim sire to my husband, as bald as a coot, as little and as unable as a child

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “grimsir”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)