Meaning

(now Scotland) A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now Scotland) A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct.
2. (UK, rail transport, slang) to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.
3. (obsolete) A step or stair.

Example Sentences

Through a door to one of the galleries, left half open on purpose I was attracted to a dainty hot supper, consisting of stewed mushrooms and the fat paps and ears of very young pigs, or, as they call them, gricen.

This fine Smooth bawson cub, the young grice of a gray

Further, there was of meats wheat bread, main-bread and ginge-bread with fleshes, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, venison, goose, grice, capon, coney, cran, swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock and pawnies, black-cock and muir-fowl, cappercaillies;

A model of the grice - which was the size of a large dog and had tusks - has been created after work by researchers and a taxidermist.

Many people joined the railways because the 'carrot' of a staff pass was a considerable attraction, whether for family travel or to grice at extremely low cost.

We can also roganise photo charters, large group footplate courses and gricing holidays [...]

Trainspotters may be mocked by the outside world, but they don't take criticism lying down: the language of gricing is notable for its acidic descriptions of outsiders.

he stood under the grices

Word Forms

• gricen
• grices
• grise
• gricing
• griced

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Use grice when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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