graisse

See also: graissé, and graîsse

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French gresse, from Vulgar Latin *crassia, from Latin crassus. Compare Occitan graissa, Catalan greix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɛs/

• Audio:

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Noun

graisse f (plural graisses)

1. grease
2. fat

Verb

graisse

1. inflection of graisser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “graisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• girasse

Norman

Alternative forms

• graîsse (Jersey)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *crassia, from Latin crassus.

Noun

graisse f (uncountable)

1. (Guernsey) fat
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 514:

     Nou ne trâche pas de la graïsse dans le nic d'ùn tchien.

     No one thinks of looking for fat in a dog's kennel.