grilse

From Middle English grills, grilles, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots grils, grissill, girls (“young salmon”). Compare English grawl, Scots grawl, graulse (“young salmon, grilse”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪls/
• Rhymes: -ɪls

grilse (plural grilses)

1. A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
   • 1961, Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics, Stanford University Press, page 4:

     In our own tongue salmon are fry as babies, parr as children, smolt as adolescents, and grilse as adults.

• grilt

• Sigler, Sliger, e-girls, egirls, elrigs, girles, ligers