griller

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)

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^[1]:

     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)
   • 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →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.

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 ?‎^[2]:

     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

Conjugation of griller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	griller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	grillant /ɡʁi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		grillé /ɡʁi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	grille /ɡʁij/	grilles /ɡʁij/	grille /ɡʁij/	grillons /ɡʁi.jɔ̃/	grillez /ɡʁi.je/	grillent /ɡʁij/
	imperfect	grillais /ɡʁi.jɛ/	grillais /ɡʁi.jɛ/	grillait /ɡʁi.jɛ/	grillions /ɡʁij.jɔ̃/	grilliez /ɡʁij.je/	grillaient /ɡʁi.jɛ/
	past historic2	grillai /ɡʁi.je/	grillas /ɡʁi.ja/	grilla /ɡʁi.ja/	grillâmes /ɡʁi.jam/	grillâtes /ɡʁi.jat/	grillèrent /ɡʁi.jɛʁ/
	future	grillerai /ɡʁij.ʁe/	grilleras /ɡʁij.ʁa/	grillera /ɡʁij.ʁa/	grillerons /ɡʁij.ʁɔ̃/	grillerez /ɡʁij.ʁe/	grilleront /ɡʁij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	grillerais /ɡʁij.ʁɛ/	grillerais /ɡʁij.ʁɛ/	grillerait /ɡʁij.ʁɛ/	grillerions /ɡʁi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	grilleriez /ɡʁi.jə.ʁje/	grilleraient /ɡʁij.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	grille /ɡʁij/	grilles /ɡʁij/	grille /ɡʁij/	grillions /ɡʁij.jɔ̃/	grilliez /ɡʁij.je/	grillent /ɡʁij/
	imperfect2	grillasse /ɡʁi.jas/	grillasses /ɡʁi.jas/	grillât /ɡʁi.ja/	grillassions /ɡʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/	grillassiez /ɡʁi.ja.sje/	grillassent /ɡʁi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	grille /ɡʁij/	—	grillons /ɡʁi.jɔ̃/	grillez /ɡʁi.je/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• grille-pain
• pain grillé

Related terms

• gril
• grille-pain

Descendants

• → Swedish: griljera

Further reading

• “griller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

References

• griller in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• griller in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• griller in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)