gril

Etymology
, from, , from , , from earlier (end of 10th century), from  (or a )

Noun

 * 1) grill, barbecue

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) cricket

Etymology 1
Borrowed from (modern ). Perhaps the shift in sense is due to a conflation of crickets with earwigs, involving the popular myth of insects which crawl through the ears to lay eggs in the brain, altering a person's behaviour.

Noun

 * 1) caprice, whim, impulse

Etymology
At least 1300s, from, from , , from , from , diminutive of. .

Noun

 * 1) grill (cooking implement made of metal rods)
 * 2)  A heated metal grill used to torture by burning
 * 3)  Torture, torment
 * 4) * 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis-clos (No Exit), Act 1, sc. 5:
 * "fr"

- Je n'aurais jamais cru... vous vous rappelez: le soufre, le bûcher, le gril...



Usage notes

 * Although sense 3 mostly appears in set phrases with sur, literarily it may sometimes be used on its own, such as in the above quotation.

Etymology
From, , from , from , diminutive of , from ,.

Noun

 * 1)  grill

Noun

 * 1) grill, barbecue

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) grill barbecue

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) grill, broiler