grill
/ɡɹɪl/ noun, verb, adjective
Forms grills grillz grilling grilled griller grillest grille girl
- noun A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
- noun The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
- noun On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
- noun (UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
- noun (US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue. “I put some peppers and mushrooms on the grill to go with dinner.”
- noun Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill. “a packet of frozen cauliflower cheese grills”
- noun A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food. “These coupons will get you a discount at Johnny's Bar and Grill.”
- noun (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
- verb (transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue. “Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?”
- verb (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
- verb (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly. “The police grilled him about his movements at the time of the crime.”
- verb (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
- verb (transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.
- verb (New York City) To stare at.
- verb (transitive, Scotland, US, obsolete) To make angry; provoke; offend, incite.
- verb (transitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To terrify; make tremble.
- verb (intransitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To tremble; shiver.
- verb (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) To snarl; snap.
- adjective (obsolete) Harsh, rough, severe; cruel.
- noun (obsolete) Harm.
Synonyms
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Etymology
1655, from French gril, from Middle French gril, from Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula (“gridiron”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”), q.v. Related to griddle, hurdle.
From Middle English grillen (“to anger, provoke”), from Old English grillan, griellan (“to annoy, vex, offend”), from Proto-West Germanic *gralljan (“to shout, make angry”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian grulje (“to make angry”), Dutch grillen (“to shudder, shiver”), Low German vergrellen (“to anger, provoke”), German grollen (“to rumble”) and perhaps also with French grouiller (“to swarm”).
From Middle English gril, grille (“harsh, rough, severe”), from Old English *grielle, from Proto-West Germanic *grallī (“angry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rattle, make a noise, grumble”). Cognate with German grell (“harsh, angry”), Danish grel (“shrill, glaring, dazzling”).
From Middle English grille, from Old English *grylla, *griella, from Proto-West Germanic *gralljō.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A gridiron.
- noun That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
- verb To broil on a grill or gridiron. Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons. Marvell.
- verb To torment, as if by broiling. Dickens.
Etymology [F. gril. See Grill, v. t.]
Etymology [F. griller, fr. gril gridiron, OF. graïl, L. craticulum for craticula fine hurdlework, a small gridiron, dim. of crates hurdle. See Grate, n.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “grill”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details