grease
Pronunciation: /ɡɹis/
The English word “grease” has 15 meanings listed here.
noun
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
- Any oily or fatty matter.
- Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
- Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
- Money.
- Synonym of fat (“work containing much blank, profitable to the compositor”).
verb
- To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
- To bribe.
- To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
- To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- To kill.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
- To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
- To depart or slip away.
Etymology
From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *crassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.
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