Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In West Africa, the sassy-bark: see
Erythrophleum . The name is probably due to the fact that the tree enters into the fetish worship and ordeals of the natives. - noun A charm or amulet; a fetish.
- noun Same as
gru-gru .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An African amulet, talisman or charm. Same as
gree-gree
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an African amulet
- noun tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts
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Examples
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Nor do they employ skilled physicians to any considerable extent, especially in the early stages of their illness, for, inheriting from their African ancestry a belief in the potency of gri-gri charms
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She called him Gri-Gri from the first, but they knew only long afterwards that "gri-gri" meant "grey-grey," to signify that she called him after his grizzled hairs.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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She called him Gri-Gri from the first, but they knew only long afterwards that "gri-gri" meant "grey-grey," to signify that she called him after his grizzled hairs.
Northern Lights, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897
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She called him Gri-Gri from the first, but they knew only long afterward that "gri-gri" meant "gray-gray," to signify that she called him after his grizzled hairs.
Northern Lights Gilbert Parker 1897
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She called him Gri-Gri from the first, but they knew only long afterwards that "gri-gri" meant "grey-grey," to signify that she called him after his grizzled hairs.
Northern Lights, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Moronval, who placed no faith in the _gri-gri_, presented his bill -- and such a bill!
Jack 1877 Alphonse Daudet 1868
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Same as above, though for slingshot toproping with the gri-gri, the palm-down is fine, too.
unknown title 2009
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Locking up - both the gri-gri and cinch did just fine.
unknown title 2009
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