grise

See also: Grise and grisé

English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• greeze, greese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹiːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

grise (plural grises)

1. (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Every grise of fortune / Is smoothed by that below.

Etymology 2

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• Resig, geris, gires, gries

Danish

Etymology 1

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

• svine

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁiz/

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• Homophone: grises

Adjective

grise

1. feminine singular of gris

Anagrams

• gésir, gires, Régis

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

• svine

References

• “grise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “grise” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• grisa

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

• svine

References

• “grise” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Verb

grīse

1. first-person singular present indicative of grīsan

Portuguese

Verb

grise

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