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As merry as a grig
Grig Grig (gr[i^]g), n. [Cf. Sw. kr["a]k little creature, reptile; or D. kriek cricket, E. cricket.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A cricket or grasshopper. [Prov. Eng.] (b) Any small eel. (c) The broad-nosed eel. See Glut. [Prov. Eng.] 2. Heath. [Prov. Eng.] --Audrey. As merry as a grig [etymology uncertain], 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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- Dublin: C.M. Warren. MacM****, Seumas (1899). In the Chimney Corners: Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore. New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, Retrieved...
- Crocodile [ru] (1966), The Legend about Grig [ru] (1967), Frantishek [ru] (1967)), Nikolay Serebryakov (I Am Waiting for a Nestling [ru] (1966), Happiness Is...
- "The homeward-bound Americans were as merry as grigs (the Southern Railway had considerately furnished a box of grigs for purposes of comparison)". Another...
- Belgium collectively known as langues d'oïl (e.g. Walloon, Norman, Gallo, Picard, Bourguignon, and Poitevin). What follows is a non-exhaustive list of inherited...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110416045639/http://www.comp-archaeology.org/GrigMegtUrals.htm Васина Ю.В., Григорьев С.А. Рекогносцировочные исследования...