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Definition of Grippy
1. affected with the grippe [adj GRIPPIER, GRIPPIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grippy
Literary usage of Grippy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of John Paterson: Major-general in the Revolutionary Army by Thomas Egleston (1898)
"General Paterson's body-servant was Agrippa Hull,* who was generally called "
grippy." He always claimed that he was the son of an African prince. ..."
2. The Bookman (1896)
"It is the note-book of a man who has begun to descent! the autumnal slope of life."
Ever fresh and admirable is the Leddy grippy, " whose tongue goes like a ..."
3. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"grippy, adj. Disposed to defraud, S.—A. g. grift, avarus. grippy FOR grippy.
One grasp of the hand iu return for another, South of 8. ..."
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