See also: Grime, grimé, and grimë

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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 Old Dutch grijmsel, Middle Dutch grime, Middle Low German greme (dirt), cf. Danish grimet (soiled, stripy), Norwegian Bokmål grimete (soiled, stripy), Norwegian Nynorsk grimete (soiled, stripy).

 
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PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

grime (uncountable)

  1. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess[1]:
      Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall.  Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
    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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VerbEdit

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[2]:
      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[3]:
      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[4]:
      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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DanishEdit

 
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hest med grime

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

  1. a halter
  2. a facial stripe

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

grime

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

Norwegian BokmålEdit

NounEdit

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

  1. a halter

VerbEdit

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

  1. (transitive) to halter

Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
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hest med grime

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EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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

  1. a halter
  2. a facial stripe

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VerbEdit

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

  1. (transitive) to halter

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

grime m (uncountable)

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

ScotsEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Of West Flemish origin.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

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).

SpanishEdit

NounEdit

grime m (plural grimes)

  1. grime (music genre)

West FrisianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

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NounEdit

grime c (no plural)

  1. anger, wrath

Further readingEdit

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