Definition of "grig" [grig]

• A lively, bright person. (noun)

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• "And all the while Tom was swimming about in the river, with a pretty little lace-collar of gills about his neck, as lively as a grig, and as clean as a fresh-run salmon."
• "The learned gentleman who does the withering business and who blights all opponents with his gloomy sarcasm is as merry as a grig at a French watering – place."
• "Honestly, I have nothing to compare it to either, and neither does the "grig!""