grime

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See also: Grime, grimé, and grimë

English

Etymology

From Middle English grim (“dirt or soot covering the face”), from a specialized note of Old English grīma (“mask”), from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask”).

Possibly influenced by dialectal Dutch grijmsel, Middle Dutch grime, Middle Low German greme (“dirt”), compare Danish grimet (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Bokmål grimete (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Nynorsk grimete (“soiled, stripy”).

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹaɪm/
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  • Rhymes: -aɪm

Noun

grime (uncountable)

  1. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
    Underneath all that soot, dirt and grime is the true beauty of the church in soft shades of sandstone.
  2. (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.

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Verb

grime (third-person singular simple present grimes, present participle griming, simple past and past participle grimed)

  1. To begrime; to cake with dirt.
    • 1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine‎:
      All grimed with coaldust, they swing along the street with their dinner baskets and cans in their hands, chattering merrily.
    • 1920, Harold Bindloss, Lister's Great Adventure‎:
      Fog from the river rolled up the street and the windows were grimed by soot, but Cartwright had not turned on the electric light.
    • 1918, Harold Bindloss, The Buccaneer Farmer‎:
      His skin was grimed with dust, for he had ridden hard in scorching heat, and was anxious and impatient to get on.

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Danish

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hest med grime

Etymology

From Old Norse gríma f, from Proto-Germanic *grimô m (“mask; visor”). Cognates include English grime and grimace.

Pronunciation

Noun

grime

  1. a halter
  2. a facial stripe

French

Pronunciation

Verb

grime

  1. inflection of grimer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

grime f or m (definite singular grima or grimen, indefinite plural grimer, definite plural grimene)

  1. a halter

Verb

grime (present tense grimer, past tense grima or grimet, past participle grima or grimet)

  1. (transitive) to halter

Norwegian Nynorsk

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hest med grime

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse gríma f, from Proto-Germanic *grimô m (“mask; visor”). Cognates include English grime and grimace. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

Noun

grime f (definite singular grima, indefinite plural grimer, definite plural grimene)

  1. a halter
  2. a facial stripe

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Related terms

Verb

grime (present tense grimar, past tense grima, past participle grima, passive infinitive grimast, present participle grimande, imperative grime/grim)

  1. (transitive) to halter

References

Portuguese

Noun

grime m (uncountable)

  1. (music) grime (a genre of urban music)

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology

Of West Flemish origin.

Pronunciation

Verb

grime (third-person singular simple present grimes, present participle grimein, simple past grimet, past participle grimet)

  1. (archaic) To sprinkle, fleck, or to cover with a layer of fine material (e.g. snow, dust).

Spanish

Noun

grime m (plural grimes)

  1. grime (music genre)

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch grim; see the verb grimmen (“to roar, be wrathful”).

Pronunciation

Noun

grime c (no plural)

  1. anger, wrath

Further reading

  • “grime (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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