Grig

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A cricket or grasshopper. [Prov. Eng.]

2. Any small eel.

3. The broad-nosed eel See Glut. [Prov. Eng.]

4. Heath. [Prov. Eng.] Audrey. As merry as a grig Etym: [etymology uncertain], a saying supposed by some to be a corruption of "As merry as a Greek; " by others, to be an allusion to the cricket.