grilse
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
Definition of grilse
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
“[T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]”
“In our own tongue salmon are fry as babies, parr as children, smolt as adolescents, and grilse as adults.”
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Etymology
From Middle English grills, grilles, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots grils, grissill, girls (“young salmon”). Compare English grawl, Scots grawl, graulse (“young salmon, grilse”).
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