grifo
See also: Grifo
English
editEtymology
editRelated to Spanish grifa.
Noun
editgrifo (uncountable)
- (slang) Cannabis.
- 1972, United States. Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, Marihuana: a Signal of Misunderstanding, page 484:
- […] the smoking in cigarettes or pipes of marihuana or grifo. Its use is as demoralizing as the use of narcotics. Smoking grifo is quite prevalent along the Oregon Short Line Railroad; and Idaho has no law to cope with the use and spread […]
- 2017, Marcelo Mendoza, Robert L. Barnes, El Gato Negro: Escaping Thirteen Deaths, volume IV, page 657:
- The operator was a man who liked to smoke grifo. Just my luck that day, my friend backpack happened to have a good supply of what I needed to sell to him.
Anagrams
editChavacano
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editgrifo
Esperanto
editEtymology
editCommon Romance.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgrifo (accusative singular grifon, plural grifoj, accusative plural grifojn)
Italian
editEtymology
editLatin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgrifo m (plural grifi)
Related terms
editAnagrams
editOld High German
editEtymology
editNoun
editgrīfo m
Descendants
editPortuguese
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese grifo, from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: gri‧fo
Noun
editgrifo m (plural grifos)
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editgrifo
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Late Latin grȳphus, from grȳps, borrowed from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgrifo m (plural grifos)
- tap, faucet (device used to dispense liquids)
- (Peru) petrol station, garage, filling station, gas station, service station
- Synonyms: gasolinera, estación de servicio, (Chile) bencinera, (Mexico) gasolinería, (Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela) bomba
- griffin
- (heraldry) griffin
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Chavacano: grifo
- → Aymara: grifo
- → Cebuano: gripo
- → Hiligaynon: gripo
- → Kapampangan: gripu
- → Maguindanao: gulipu
- → Maranao: giripo
- → Pangasinan: gripo
- → Quechua: grifu
- → Sambali: gripo
- → Tagalog: gripo
- → Tausug: giripu
Adjective
editgrifo (feminine grifa, masculine plural grifos, feminine plural grifas)
- (colloquial) intoxicated (by alcohol, cannabis)
References
edit- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “grifo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 213
Further reading
edit- “grifo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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