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English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹɪl/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪl

Etymology 1

1655, from French gril, from Middle French gril, from Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula (“gridiron”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”), q.v. Related to griddle, hurdle.

Alternative forms

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  • grille (only in sense of "grating")

Noun

Brazier with grill and pot rest
A full set of gold grills (sense 8).

grill (plural grills or (jewelry) grillz)

  1. A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
  2. The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
  3. On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
  4. (UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
  5. (US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
    I put some peppers and mushrooms on the grill to go with dinner.
  6. Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
    a packet of frozen cauliflower cheese grills
  7. A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
    These coupons will get you a discount at Johnny's Bar and Grill.
    • 1986, New York, volume 19, part 5, page 385:
      Everyone's meeting at the new grill in town! And everyone's having a real good time! They're drinking frozen blue Margaritas. Munching on Cajun popcorn shrimp. Laughing with old friends and getting to know new ones.
  9. (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
    Synonyms: fronts, golds
  10. (colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
  11. (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of girl.
    r u a grill?
Derived terms
Translations
grill room — see grill room

Verb

grill (third-person singular simple present grills, present participle grilling, simple past and past participle grilled)

  1. (transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cook
    Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?
  2. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139:
      Bradly hung the fowl in a sugar-bag for to-morrow's dinner and set about grilling chops, with tomatoes stuffed with cheese and breadcrumbs in the pan.
  3. (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
    The police grilled him about his movements at the time of the crime.
    • 2006, Noire , Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 148:
      The white cop grilled me. He was tall, but had a stomach like a pregnant woman. The other two were brothers, and they looked like they just didn't wanna be standing there.
  4. (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
    • 1898, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work:
      He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains, and shivered with fever under the rude thatch roof; […]
  5. (transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.
  6. (New York City) To stare at.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English grillen (“to anger, provoke”), from Old English grillan, griellan (“to annoy, vex, offend”), from Proto-West Germanic *gralljan (“to shout, make angry”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian grulje (“to make angry”), Dutch grillen (“to shudder, shiver”), Low German vergrellen (“to anger, provoke”), German grollen (“to rumble”) and perhaps also with French grouiller (“to swarm”).

Alternative forms

Verb

grill (third-person singular simple present grills, present participle grilling, simple past and past participle grilled)

  1. (transitive, Scotland, US, obsolete) To make angry; provoke; offend, incite.
  2. (transitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To terrify; make tremble.
  3. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To tremble; shiver.
  4. (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) To snarl; snap.

Etymology 3

From Middle English gril, grille (“harsh, rough, severe”), from Old English *grielle, from Proto-West Germanic *grallī (“angry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rattle, make a noise, grumble”). Cognate with German grell (“harsh, angry”), Danish grel (“shrill, glaring, dazzling”).

Adjective

grill (comparative griller or more grill, superlative grillest or most grill)

  1. (obsolete) Harsh, rough, severe; cruel.

Etymology 4

From Middle English grille, from Old English *grylla, *griella, from Proto-West Germanic *gralljō.

Noun

grill (usually uncountable, plural grills)

  1. (obsolete) Harm.

References

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan grill, from Latin gryllus (compare Occitan gril, Spanish grillo), probably from Ancient Greek γρύλλος (grúllos).

Pronunciation

Noun

grill m (plural grills)

  1. cricket (insect)
  2. sprout, shoot (new growth from a tuber or bulb)
  3. segment, section (of a citrus fruit or a nut)
    Es pot acabar decorant amb un grill de taronja.
    You can finish it by garnishing with a segment of orange.

References

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English grill.

Pronunciation

Noun

grill m (plural grills, diminutive grilletje n)

  1. grill

French

Pronunciation

Noun

grill m (plural grills)

  1. grill (restaurant)

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From English grill, grille, from French gril (“grill”), grille (“gate, grate, grid”), from Middle French grille, grisle, from Old French greille, graïlle, from earlier gradilie, from Latin crāticula (“grill, grating, griddle”) (or Vulgar Latin graticula), diminutive of crātis (“wickerwork, bundle of brush, fascine”), possibly either from Proto-Indo-European *kr̥tis, from *kert- (“to weave, twist together”), or from *kréh₂-tis.

Noun

grill m (definite singular grillen, indefinite plural griller, definite plural grillene)

  1. (cooking) a grill
  2. (automotive) a radiator grille
Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

grill

  1. imperative of grille

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

From French grille, gril, via English grill, grille.

Noun

grill m (definite singular grillen, indefinite plural grillar, definite plural grillane)

  1. (cooking) a grill
  2. (automotive) a radiator grille

References

Polish

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English grill.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡril/, /ɡrɨl/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -il
  • Syllabification: grill

Noun

grill m inan

  1. barbecue, grill (cooking device)
    Synonyms: ruszt, barbecue
  2. barbecue (event with meal, typically held outdoors)
    Synonym: barbecue
  3. grill of a car

Declension

Declension of grill
singular plural
nominative grill grille
genitive grilla grillów/grilli
dative grillowi grillom
accusative grill/grilla grille
instrumental grillem grillami
locative grillu grillach
vocative grillu grille

Derived terms

adjective
verb

Further reading

  • grill in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • grill in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English grill.

Noun

grill m (plural grills)

  1. grill

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English grill, from French gril, from Latin crāticula.

Noun

grill c

  1. grill (cooking device)

Declension

Declension of grill 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative grill grillen grillar grillarna
Genitive grills grillens grillars grillarnas

Derived terms

Related terms

Noun

grill c

  1. (normally in the plural griller) A strange idea
    Synonyms: påhitt, inbillning
    sätta griller i huvudet på någon
    put strange ideas into someone's head
  2. (slang, normally in the plural griller) An ice skate
    Synonyms: skridsko, (slang) skrilla, (variant) grilla

Declension

Declension of grill 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative grill grillen griller grillerna
Genitive grills grillens grillers grillernas

See also

References

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