German

Noun

Grill m ‎(genitive Grills, plural Grills)

1. (cooking or automotive) grill

Declension

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʀil/

  Rhymes: -il

Etymology 1

From English grill, from French gril.

Noun

Grill m ‎(plural Griller)

1. grill
2. barbecue

Etymology 2

From Old High German grillo, from Latin gryllus. Cognate with German Grille, French grillon.

Noun

Grill f ‎(plural Grillen)

1. cricket (insect)

English

Alternative forms

• girl

Verb

grill ‎(third-person singular simple present grills, present participle grilling, simple past and past participle grilled)

1. (transitive, Scotland, US) To make angry; provoke.
2. (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To terrify; make tremble.
3. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To tremble; shiver.
4. (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To snarl; snap.

Etymology 2

From Middle English gril, grille ‎(“harsh, rough, severe”), from Old English *griell, from Proto-Germanic *grellaz ‎(“angry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gher- ‎(“to rattle, make a noise, grumble”). Cognate with German grell ‎(“harsh, angry”), Danish grel ‎(“shrill, glaring, dazzling”).

Adjective

grill ‎(comparative griller or more grill, superlative grillest or most grill)

1. harsh, rough, severe; cruel

Noun

grill ‎(usually uncountable, plural grills)

1. harm

Etymology 3

1655, from French gril, from Middle French, from Old French greïl, graïl ‎(“gridiron”), from graïlle ‎(“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula ‎(“gridiron”), diminutive of crātis ‎(“hurdle, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *kor(ə)t-, *krāt- ‎(“to weave, twist, wattle; wicker”). Related to griddle, hurdle.

Alternative forms

• grille

Noun

Brazier with grill and pot rest

grill ‎(plural grills)

1. A rack; 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.
   • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter I”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:

     The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

2. On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
3. A device comprising a source of radiant heat and a means of holding food near it, to cook it; a barbecue; a griddle.

   I put some peppers and mushrooms on the grill to go with dinner.‎

4. (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
5. (colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
6. Food cooked on a grill.

   a packet of frozen cauliflower cheese grills‎

7. A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.

   These coupons will get you a discount at Johnny's Bar and Grill.

   • 1986, New York (volume 19, part 5, page 385)

     Everyone's meeting at the new grill in town! And everyone's having a real good time! They're drinking frozen blue Margaritas. Munching on Cajun popcorn shrimp. Laughing with old friends and getting to know new ones.

8. (humorous) Misspelling of girl.

Derived terms

• mixed grill
• grilling

Translations

Verb

grill ‎(third-person singular simple present grills, present participle grilling, simple past and past participle grilled)

1. (transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.

   Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?

2. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, Britain) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
3. (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.

   The police grilled him about his movements at the time of the crime.

4. (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
   • Rudyard Kipling

     He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains.

5. (transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:cook

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

grill m ‎(plural grills, diminutive grilletje n)

1. grill

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Etymology 1

From French grille, gril, via English grill, grille

Noun

grill m ‎(definite singular grillen, indefinite plural griller, definite plural grillene)

1. (cooking) a grill
2. (automotive) a radiator grille

Related terms

• grille (cooking)

Etymology 2

Verb

grill

1. imperative of grille

References

• “grill” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French grille, gril, via English grill, grille

Noun

grill m ‎(definite singular grillen, indefinite plural grillar, definite plural grillane)

1. (cooking) a grill
2. (automotive) a radiator grille

References

• “grill” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /gril/

Noun

grill m inan

1. barbecue (cooking device)
2. barbecue (event with meal, typically held outdoors)

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