gril

gril (comparative more gril, superlative most gril)

1. Alternative form of grill.

gril (third-person singular simple present grils, present participle grilling, simple past and past participle grilled)

1. Alternative form of grill.

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gril (plural grils)

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of girl.

• Girl, LIRG, girl

Borrowed from English grill, from Middle French grille, grisle, from Old French greille, graïlle, from earlier gradilie (end of 10th century), from Latin crāticula (or a Vulgar Latin graticula)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrɪl]

gril m inan

1. grill, barbecue

   Synonyms: rožeň, rošt

• “gril”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “gril”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin gryllus.

gril

1. cricket

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

• IPA^(key): /ɣrɪl/

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• Hyphenation: gril
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Borrowed from Middle High German grille (“cricket”) (modern Grille). Perhaps the shift in sense is due to a conflation of crickets with earwigs, involving the popular myth of insects which crawl through the ears to lay eggs in the brain, altering a person's behaviour.

gril f or m (plural grillen, diminutive grilletje n)

1. caprice, whim, impulse

gril m (plural grils)

1. alternative form of grill

At least 1300s, from Middle French gril, from Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula (“grating”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”). Doublet of grille.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁil/

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gril m (plural grils)

1. grill (cooking implement made of metal rods)
2. (historical) A heated metal grill used to torture by burning
3. (by extension, chiefly phrasal) Torture, torment
   • 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis-clos (No Exit), Act 1, sc. 5:

     Je n'aurais jamais cru... vous vous rappelez: le soufre, le bûcher, le gril...

     I would never have believed it... you remember: the fire, the brimstone, the torment...

   retourner sur le gril d'école

   suffer the torment of school (literally "turn over on the grill")

   passer sur le gril

   rake over the coals

• Although sense 3 mostly appears in set phrases with sur, literarily it may sometimes be used on its own, such as in the above quotation.

• griller

• grille

• “gril”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula (“gridiron”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *kor(ə)t-, *krāt- (“to weave, twist, wattle; wicker”).

gril m (plural grils)

1. (Jersey) grill

• IPA^(key): [ɡril]

gril m inan (relational adjective grilový)

1. grill, barbecue

• grilovať

• “gril”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from French grille.

gril (definite accusative grili, plural griller)

1. grill (barbecue)

• ızgara

• “gril”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Borrowed from English grill.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

gril m (plural griliau)

1. grill, broiler

• grilio (“to grill, to broil”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gril”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies