Noun: grice
| Singular | grice |
| Plural | gricen; grices |
Sample Sentences
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This fine Smooth bawson cub, the young grice of a gray [1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd:]
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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; [1728, Robert Lindsay, The history of Scotland, from 21 February, 1436. to March, 1565: in which are contained accounts of many remarkable passages altogether differing from our other historians, and many facts are related, either concealed by some, or omitted by others, Mr. Baskett and Company, page 146:]
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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. [1789, William Thomson, Mammuth: or, human nature displayed on a grand scale: in a tour with the tinkers, into the inland parts of Africa. By the man in the moon. In two volumes. publ. G. and T. Wilkie, pg.105]
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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. [2006 November 17, “Extinct island pig spotted again”, in BBC News:]
Etymology
From Middle English gris, from Old Norse gríss (“male pig; pigling”). Compare Old Dutch gristo, gristio (“boar, wild boar”). See: Middle English Nouns '
gris', Old Norse Nouns '
gríss'.