grise

See also: Grise and grisé

English

Etymology 1

Properly the plural of gree (“a step”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡɹiːz/
  • Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

grise (plural grises)

  1. (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.

Noun

grise (plural grises)

  1. Alternative form of grice (a pig)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɡ̊ʁiːsə]
  • Rhymes: -iːsə

Noun

grise c

  1. indefinite plural of gris

Etymology 2

From gris (“pig”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɡ̊ʁisə]

Verb

grise (imperative gris, infinitive at grise, present tense griser, past tense grisede, perfect tense er/har griset)

  1. dirty
  2. mess up
Synonyms

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡʁiz/
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  • Homophone: grises

Adjective

grise

  1. feminine singular of gris

Anagrams

Norman

Pronunciation
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Adjective

grise

  1. feminine singular of gris

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From gris (“pig”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡriːsə/

Verb

grise (imperative gris, present tense griser, passive grises, simple past grisa or griset or griste, past participle grisa or griset or grist, present participle grisende)

  1. to farrow, give birth to piglets (of a female pig)
  2. grise til - to dirty, to mess up

Synonyms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From gris (“pig”).

Verb

grise (present tense grisar, past tense grisa, past participle grisa, passive infinitive grisast, present participle grisande, imperative grise/gris)

  1. to farrow, give birth to piglets (of a female pig)
  2. grise til - to dirty, to mess up

Synonyms

References

Portuguese

Verb

grise

  1. inflection of grisar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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