grif
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grif (plural grifs)
- (dated or historical) Alternative form of griffe (“person of mixed (black and white) race”)
- 1807, François Raymond J. de Pons, Travels in South America, during ... 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804. Transl, page 249:
- His colour is nearly that of a grif or cobb, the produce of a mulatto and negro.
- 1992, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 263:
- […] in the inventory of the estate of Jean Decuir in 1771, she was listed as one of 3 mulatto children of a grif mother.
- 2012, Andrew Sluyter, Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 82:
- Lisette also had two older daughters: Magdaleine, born in 1749; and Francoise, born in 1753 and variously identified as a grif or mulatto.
- 2017, Terry Rey, The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50:
- [This] author of one of the most detailed contemporary discussions about the prophetess and the Trou Coffy insurgency, was the first on record to refer to the prophetess as a “grif,” meaning someone born to one black and one mulatto parent.
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grif m (plural grifs)
- Alternative form of griu
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Etymology edit
Probably by contraction from an older form *gerif, in that form attested in East Frisian and in Gronings, cognate with Dutch gerief (“amenity”).
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Adjective edit
grif (comparative griffer, superlative grifst)
- prompt, without hesitation, ready
- eager
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Inflection of grif | ||||
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uninflected | grif | |||
inflected | griffe | |||
comparative | griffer | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | grif | griffer | het grifst het grifste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | griffe | griffere | grifste |
n. sing. | grif | griffer | grifste | |
plural | griffe | griffere | grifste | |
definite | griffe | griffere | grifste | |
partitive | grifs | griffers | — |
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- (eager): gretig
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grif m (Cyrillic spelling гриф)