griller

English

Etymology

grill +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (patient suffix)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

griller (plural grillers)

1. One who, or that which, grills.
   • 2002, Karen Adler, Judith M Fertig, Fish and shellfish, grilled and smoked:

     For the novice fish griller, firm-fleshed fish steaks (salmon, tuna, swordfish, shark) will be the easiest to grill.

2. Food suitable for grilling.
   • 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times‎:

     Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […]

French

Etymology

From grille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁi.je/

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Verb

griller

1. to toast (cook with a toaster)
2. to grill (cook with a grill)
3. (intransitive) to toast (heat up, said of e.g. skin)
4. (colloquial) to smoke (a cigarette)
   • 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:

     Puis je restais là, étendu dans le noir, à griller une cigarette et regarder dans ma tête jusqu’à ce que des poings impatients qui martelaient la porte m’obligent à céder la place.

     — Then I would linger on, stretched out in the dark, having a smoke and meditating, until impatient fists hammering on the door made me give up my place.

5. (transport) to run; to pass a stop signal or stop sign, or without yielding right of way (at duty to yield)
   • 2015, Nantes : la priorité à droite, une solution pour limiter la vitesse ?‎:

     Et Stéphane Montfort d’ajouter : "Si vous avez un accrochage après avoir grillé une priorité à droite, c’est vous qui êtes en tort".

     And Stéphane Montfort adds : "If you have a collision after having run a priority to the right, it is you who is at fault".

Conjugation

Derived terms

• grille-pain
• pain grillé

Related terms

• gril
• grille-pain

Descendants

• → Swedish: griljera

Further reading

• “griller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

griller m

1. indefinite plural of grill

Verb

griller

1. present of grille

Swedish

Noun

griller

1. strange ideas

   sätta griller i huvudet på någon

   put strange ideas in someone's head

2. indefinite plural of grill

References

• griller in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• griller in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• griller in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)