gril

English

Etymology

From Middle English grille, from Old English gril (“harsh”), akin to German grell (“offending the ear or eye, shrill, dazzling”).

Adjective

gril (comparative more gril, superlative most gril)

  1. (obsolete) harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 gril in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Czech

Noun

gril m

  1. grill, barbecue

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle High German grille (“cricket”) (modern Grille). Perhaps the shift in sense is due to a conflation of crickets with earwigs, involving the popular myth of insects which crawl through the ears to lay eggs in the brain, altering a person's behaviour.

Pronunciation

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Noun

gril f, m (plural grillen, diminutive grilletje n)

  1. caprice, whim, impulse

French

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

  1. grill (for cooking)

Derived terms

Further reading

Norman

Etymology

From Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula (“gridiron”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *kor(ə)t-, *krāt- (“to weave, twist, wattle; wicker”).

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

  1. (Jersey) grill

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Noun

gril (definite accusative grili, plural griller)

  1. grill (barbecue)

Synonyms

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