15,000 words and phrases from more than 50 languages and their

greffier 146
greffier [Fr], registrar; recorder; clerk of the court; notary: France and
the Channel Islands.
gregatim [L], in flocks or herds; in droves.
grenat [Fr], garnet.
grex venalium [L], a venal throng.
griffonnage [Fr], scrawl; scribble.
grillé [Fr; fern, grillée], broiled: cookery.
gringo [Sp], derisive word for a foreigner, particularly one from the
United States, heard especially in Mexico.
grisette [Fr], a young working-class woman, so-called because orig.
dressed in gray {gris).
grivois [Fr; fern, grivoise], too free and bold; coarsely jolly; broad;
indelicate. —conte grivois, an indelicate story.
groente [Du; pi. groenten], vegetable.
gros [Fr; fern, grosse], big; large; stout; pregnant; dark (of color).
—gros bleu, dark blue. —gros mots, high words; oaths. —gros poisson,
fat fish; important person. —gros rhume, bad cold. —grosse tête,
peu de sens, big head, little sense {or wit). —gros temps, foul weather.
—une femme grosse, a pregnant woman. —une grosse femme, a
stout woman.
groseille [Fr], currant. —groseille à maquereau (lit., mackerel currant)
or groseille verte (lit., green currant), gooseberry.
grosse Seelen dulden still [Ger], great souls suffer in silence: Schiller.
grossièreté [Fr], coarseness; grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
grosso [It], great; grand; full; deep: music.
gruppetto [It; pi. gruppetti], lit., small knot; a turn: music.
guano [Sp], fertilizer from bird droppings: Peru.
guarapo [Am Sp], cane juice; a fermented beverage made from the
sugar cane.
guardacoste [It; S ρ guarda-costas], coast guard.
guardatevi! [It], take care!
guarde-vos Deus de amigo reconciliado [Pg], God preserve you from
a reconciled friend.
guazzo [It], lit., puddle; splash; fine arts, a method of watercolor painting.
Cf. GOUACHE.
guberniya [Russ], a government, or territorial subdivision, of the former
Russian empire; in Soviet Russia, a provincial soviet.
guddee [Anglo-Ind; Hind gaddï], cushion; specif., a king's cushion;
throne. Cf. MUSNUD.
guerra a la cuchilla [Sp], war to the knife.
guerra cominciata, inferno scatenato [It], war commenced, hell unchained.
guerre [Fr], war. —guerre à mort, war to the death. —guerre à outrance,
war to the utmost; war to the death; war without mercy. —guerre
de plume, paper warfare.