grippe
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
Definition of grippe
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, dated, uncountable)Influenza, the flu.
“These other germs are the cause of colds and coughs and grippes.”
“"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!"”
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Etymology
Borrowed from French grippe, from gripper (“to seize, snatch”), from Frankish *grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, to grasp”). Borrowed from French into many languages of the world. More at gripe.
Words you can make from grippe
32 playable · top: GIPPER (11 pts)
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