Lexicographical Neighbors of Gripy
Literary usage of Gripy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"gripy, grasping, avaricious. GRISLY, speckled. See GRIZZLED. GRIT, pith, as
applied to a man's mind, robust character. " He hes some grit in him. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The movements are accompanied with great pain of a colicky or gripy nature.
Tenes- mus, or straining, is a very frequent symptom. ..."
3. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"gripy, power of, iii. 108 (note). Philip, use of the name, iii. 119. PHILIP I.
of France, crowned in his father's lifetime, iii. ..."
4. Peter Parley's Annual. by William Martin (1862)
"... and look as sour and gripy as the beer, for after it was down you felt as if
a corkscrew armed with fish hooks was running through your vitals. ..."
5. Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders by Charles Handfield Jones (1868)
"... the bowels which before were costive being loose and gripy and the stools green.
28th Worse last three days, has severe and frequent attacks; ..."
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