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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.)

    1. A cricket or grasshopper. [Prov. Eng.]

    2. Any small eel.

    3. 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.

Usage examples of "as merry as a grig".

The archer, however, who had drunk more than any man in the room, was as merry as a grig, and having kissed the matron and chased the maid up the ladder once more, he went out to the brook, and came back with the water dripping from his face and hair.

But though he was as happy as the day was long, and as merry as a grig, the King's daughter fretted all day, thinking of the indignity that had been done her in making her marry Martin, the poor widow's son, instead of a rich young Prince from a foreign country.

I shall be as merry as a grig in a week's time, and I don't mean to get into a fix again, I can tell you!