Hypertext Webster Gateway: "grig"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Grig \Grig\ (gr[i^]g), n. [Cf. Sw. kr["a]k little creature,
reptile; or D. kriek cricket, E. cricket.]
1. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A cricket or grasshopper. [Prov. Eng.]
(b) Any small eel.
(c) The broad-nosed eel. See {Glut}. [Prov. Eng.]
2. Heath. [Prov. Eng.] --Audrey.
{As merry as a grig} [etymology uncertain], a saying supposed
by some to be a corruption of ``As merry as a Greek; '' by
others, to be an allusion to the cricket.
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