Grig n.
1. Zool. (a) A cricket or grasshopper. [Prov. Eng.] (b) Any small eel. (c) The broad-nosed eel. See Glut. [Prov. Eng.]
2. Heath. [Prov. Eng.]
As merry as a grig , 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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