Citations:grinagog

English citations of grinagog

adjective

• 2012 February 28, Melanie Rawn, Touchstone, Tor Books, →ISBN:

  The Human in me lets me drink—something me old fa can't do, by the way, without he goes all grinagog and silly with it, and after that he's snarly for three days. The Elf and the Wizard and the Piksey are too strong in him, y'see.

• 2014 April 29, Melanie Rawn, Thornlost, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 336:

  “What're you all grinagog about?” Rafe muttered as they freed the wagon's left rear wheel from the muck. “The prospect,” Cade told him, “of getting back in the wagon and getting warm.” Arriving many hours beyond the expected time, […]

noun

• 2009 November 10, Katherine Sturtevant, The Brothers Story, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), →ISBN, page 20:

  “Look at that smile, what a grinagog he is!” John said. “An't a soul in the village wouldn't rather see Christy's smiling face than yers,” I answered him, and he scowled. Then the squire called John to bring him his horse […]

• 2014 December 12, Sheena Vernon, Messiah: Love, Music and Malice at a Time of Handel, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

  'Sorry about that, Guv, he wasn't gumming you, just some grinagog riding a bone shaker.' The chairman smiles to reveal inflamed gums and rotting maws. Steam issues from his mouth in the cold November air. Despite the rocking motion of […]

• 2021 July 20, Dave Baker, Everyone is Tulip, Dark Horse Comics, →ISBN:

  […] has had to stare this grey-eyed grinagog in the face every waking moment.