griller

English

Etymology

grill + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix)

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

griller (plural grillers)

  1. One who, or that which, grills.
    • 2002, Karen Adler, Judith M Fertig, Fish and shellfish, grilled and smoked:
      For the novice fish griller, firm-fleshed fish steaks (salmon, tuna, swordfish, shark) will be the easiest to grill.
  2. Food suitable for grilling.
    • 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times:
      Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs []

French

Etymology

From grille + -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʁi.je/
  • (file)

Verb

griller

  1. to toast (cook with a toaster)
  2. to grill (cook with a grill)
  3. (intransitive) to toast (heat up, said of e.g. skin)
  4. (colloquial) to smoke (a cigarette)
    • 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:
      Puis je restais là, étendu dans le noir, à griller une cigarette et regarder dans ma tête jusqu’à ce que des poings impatients qui martelaient la porte m’obligent à céder la place.
      — Then I would linger on, stretched out in the dark, having a smoke and meditating, until impatient fists hammering on the door made me give up my place.
  5. (transport) to run; to pass a stop signal or stop sign, or without yielding right of way (at duty to yield)
    • 2015, Nantes : la priorité à droite, une solution pour limiter la vitesse ?:
      Et Stéphane Montfort d’ajouter : "Si vous avez un accrochage après avoir grillé une priorité à droite, c’est vous qui êtes en tort".
      And Stéphane Montfort adds : "If you have a collision after having run a priority to the right, it is you who is at fault".

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Swedish: griljera

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

griller m

  1. indefinite plural of grill

Verb

griller

  1. present of grille

Swedish

Noun

griller

  1. strange ideas
    sätta griller i huvudet på någon
    put strange ideas in someone's head
  2. indefinite plural of grill

References

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