grease one's gills in English

Forms: greases one's gills [present, singular, third-person], greasing one's gills [participle, present], greased one's gills [participle, past], greased one's gills [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} grease one's gills (third-person singular simple present greases one's gills, present participle greasing one's gills, simple past and past participle greased one's gills)

[Show JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greases one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greasing one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greased one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greased one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "grease one's gills (third-person singular simple present greases one's gills, present participle greasing one's gills, simple past and past participle greased one's gills)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1763, Robert Lloyd, The St. James's Magazine, volume 2, page 188",
          "text": "He'll give a guinea at the least,\nTo grease his gills at city feast:\nBut tho' to belly he's so kind,\nYet not one souse to treat his mind.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, M. Laszlo, The Phantom Glare of Day",
          "text": "I know how to grease my gills, I do. And I've got me a good recipe for kidney pie.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eat a hearty meal."
      ],
      "id": "en-grease_one's_gills-en-verb-UOs-~QX2",
      "links": [
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "hearty",
          "hearty"
        ],
        [
          "meal",
          "meal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To eat a hearty meal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "grease one's gills"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greases one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greasing one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greased one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greased one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "grease one's gills (third-person singular simple present greases one's gills, present participle greasing one's gills, simple past and past participle greased one's gills)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1763, Robert Lloyd, The St. James's Magazine, volume 2, page 188",
          "text": "He'll give a guinea at the least,\nTo grease his gills at city feast:\nBut tho' to belly he's so kind,\nYet not one souse to treat his mind.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, M. Laszlo, The Phantom Glare of Day",
          "text": "I know how to grease my gills, I do. And I've got me a good recipe for kidney pie.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eat a hearty meal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "hearty",
          "hearty"
        ],
        [
          "meal",
          "meal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To eat a hearty meal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "grease one's gills"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"grease one's gills" meaning in English

Verb