griller

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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)
    • 2005 [1963], Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, Payot & Rivages, →ISBN; republished as Robyn Marsack, transl., The Way of the World, 2011, →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.
    • 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 27:
      Il connaît, autour de chez lui, les entrées de bureaux, là où les gens sortent en griller une dans la journée et il lui arrive de passer et de ralentir, il ramasse les mégots les plus longs.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  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

Descendants

  • Swedish: griljera

Further reading

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

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