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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Grig

/(grĭg)/ · IPA /ɡɹɪɡ/
01 n. A cricket or grasshopper.
  1. 1.
    A cricket or grasshopper.(Zool.) [Prov. Eng.]
  2. 2.
    Heath.[Prov. Eng.]
Phrases & compounds
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.