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(adjective) - A grig is a grasshopper. In most countries the cricket and the grasshopper are types representing a careless, happy existence. We have the related saying "Merry as a cricket," and Tennyson in "The Brook" speaks of "high-elbowed grigs that leap in summer grass."
--Henry Reddall's Fact, Fancy, and Fable, 1889
January 16, 2018