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- Greedy, 29, Go. gredags, grêdus, hunger
- Greesh, 150, fire-place, cog. Ir. grushach. See gris
- Greet, 30, 35, 87, spec. Sc. cry. O.E. graetan, N. gràta, Go. grêtan, to weep, grat, pret. Go. gai-grot
"She sat an' she grat
An' she flet an' she flang."
- Grewy, "one of the most expressive of Sc. words, to be looked for under grewing (II. 452 Jam.), where you are referred to groue, growe." (J. B. F.)
- Grice, 68, 133, 182, 250, sp. Sc. a young pig. O.N. griss. Da. gris, Skr. grishti, E. griskin, N. gricifer, grice or swine fever
- Grien, green, 129, to yearn, A.S. geornan, long for. See gairnjan
"Then a' the hooss for sleep begin to grein."
Fergusson.
- †Griere, 93, 128, Sc. farm-bailiff. W.Sax. gerefa, in Eng. reeve, sheriff, land-grave, Ger. Graf, conn. A.S. róf, active, not Ger. Graf.—Kl. Sk.
- Gripple, gruip, 132, Du. greppel, a ditch, from Du. grip; grips, grips, O.E. grép, a burrow, groop, Ger. Graben. See graep
- Grippy, 69, tight-fisted, Du. gripich, from grip
- Grips, 132, hand-i-grips, a fight at close quarters
- Gris (Irish), 150, grushach. See greesh
- Groop, grupe, gruip, 132, Ger. Graben, drain in cow-byre; Eng. graft (obsc.); Du. gracht, a ditch, and street on either side of a canal, grare, to dig
- Groosie, 153, shivering with cold; groue, growe, groose to shudder; grue, goose skin on approach of a cold. Cf. Ger. grausam.
- Groosin, 138, Ger. grausen, a shivering (cold) fit, gruse, groosy, grue, to shudder from cold, dread, &c. Ger. grausen, Du. gruwen
- Grozets, grozers, grossarts, 127, 240
- Grumphie, the pig (echoic)
- Grundie swallie, 123, groundsel, grunde-swylige (10th c.); grundee-swelgiae (7th c). N.E.D. discusses the confusion of these two forms, not very satisfactorily
- Gucken, 209, colloquial Ger. like Sc. seestu'. Cf. keek, which see
- Gude, 29, 81, god-s, goth-s, gen. gôdis. Go. good, or. sense, fitting, suitable; Du. goed, Ger. gut, landed estate
- Gudge, (Ab.) 23, 56, 65, 112, a peasant. Go. gaujans, peasants, gauja, a peasant, 21; gawi, a country district, in place names, 19, 22; gudge, not in N.E.D. Jam. has gudget, a camp follower, Fr. goujat
- Gud-hus, 25, Go. God's house, guth, masc. in sg. and pl. gutha. In Go. neut. in pl. neuter. In or. use anal. to Lat. numen and deus.—N.E.D.
- Gud-ja, 28, Go. priest, good man
- Guildee, 116, Cptn.
- Guisers, guisard, guisin, 104, in fantastic guise
- Gulls, 177, Cu.
- Gully, 133, spec. Sc. or. obs.—a large knife
"A lang kale gully hung doon by his side."
- Gum, 181
- †Guma, 16, 248, 249, Go. man. A.S. guma, "groom, difficult,—not from guma."—N.E.D.
- Gumpshin, gumption, 33, 136, 181, 217, judgment, mother wit, rummle-gumption. Not explained in N.E.D. Conn. O.N. gaumr, care, heed. Go. gaumjan, to take notice of. See gawm
- Gundy, 130, 185, 259, syn. of clack, which see
- Gunst, 31, 245, Ger. Klüge=ge-unst, O.H.G. gi-unnan=gönnen: oldest form anst (without prefix ge-). Go. ansts, A.S. ést; with gönnen, cp. Du. gunnen, A.S. unnan, O.N. unna. For Go. root ans=Ger. ¤un.s, unsan, O.N. áss, A.S. os=Godhead, Sans. asura for ansura. See an-an, eynd, &c.
- Gur-pug, 71, Orc.=a small Shetland horse
- Gurthie, 140, "app. spec. to what burdens the stomach."—Jam. Bu. galsoch, gulsoch, fond of good eating.—Gregor
