Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
gri-gri .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An African talisman or charm.
- noun an African magician or fetich priest.
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- noun A kind of
African talisman orcharm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an African amulet
Etymologies
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Examples
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I saw a native doctor making his "greegree," or charm, for rain.
Journal of an African Cruiser Horatio Bridge 1849
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The ball had cut the ligature which bound his "greegree" of shells around his head, and the faithless charm lay on the ground beside him.
Journal of an African Cruiser Horatio Bridge 1849
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From moon to moon the chalk lay before the main idol in the greegree house, and thus absorbed the qualities that made it powerful in the spirit world.
mollusque commented on the word greegree
Variant of grigri.
December 2, 2008
zenseiderz commented on the word greegree
Gris-gris is grey dirt, but the page is mostly correct it's still made into an amulet or curse along with a few other ingredients, and it is derived from West African Yoruba-based religions. Thanks to cultural appropriation we have African diaspora or Afro-American traditions (like Voodoo in Haiti, Louisiana, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Brazil altho they go by different names) which is where the knowledge of this spell in the Western world comes from.
February 8, 2024