Lexicographical Neighbors of Grigged
Literary usage of Grigged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... grigged me. Thinks I, my boy, I'll just take that expression, roll it up into
a ball, and shy it at you. — Sam .SV7, e: : Human Nature. ..."
2. The Clockmaker, Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1837)
"That grigged her properly, it made her very wrathy (for nothi-n sets up a woman's
spunk like callin her ugly, she. gets her back right up like a cat when a ..."
3. The Old Judge: Or, Life in a Colony by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1849)
"That kind of grigged Luke, for no one likes to have mishaps cast up that way,
even in pity. " ' What will you bet I don't catch her ?' says he. ..."
4. Judge Haliburton's Yankee Stories by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1846)
"Well, I felt kinder grigged at missin my shot, and I didn't over half like to be
scolded too; so says I, Yes, father; but recollect you had a mud bank to ..."
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