"greaze" meaning in English

See greaze in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-greaze.wav
Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} greaze
  1. (MLE, slang) Offensive and abusive language; contumely. Tags: Multicultural-London-English, slang
    Sense id: en-greaze-en-noun-6zkgwpEm Categories (other): Multicultural London English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 37 6 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 41 6 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 44 3 3
  2. (MLE, slang) Excellence. Tags: Multicultural-London-English, slang
    Sense id: en-greaze-en-noun-Z4Qi0S1L Categories (other): Multicultural London English, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 41 6 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 44 3 3
  3. Obsolete spelling of grease. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: grease
    Sense id: en-greaze-en-noun-ZVjbTyoP

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-greaze.wav Forms: greazes [present, singular, third-person], greazing [participle, present], greazed [participle, past], greazed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} greaze (third-person singular simple present greazes, present participle greazing, simple past and past participle greazed)
  1. Obsolete spelling of grease. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: grease
    Sense id: en-greaze-en-verb-ZVjbTyoP

Inflected forms

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "greaze",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Multicultural London English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 37 6 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "48 41 6 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 44 3 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't talk greaze to me.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 April 3, “Normal”, in Blue Battlefield, performed by Merky ACE:",
          "text": "Yeah, I spit greaze and I do not care",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 May 4, “Man Don't Care”performed by Jme:",
          "text": "How could a man with a uni degree / Be bussing up mic and chatting this greaze?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 June 26, “Praise the Lord (Da Shine)”, in Testing, performed by ASAP Rocky:",
          "text": "I hustle, I flex, the world is mine / So please believe, allow the greaze / These niggas disease, don't speak, we squeeze",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 October 31, “Family”, in Mic Righteous: I Am Reckless, performed by Mic Reckless:",
          "text": "Do your family back it, mine'll casually dash you in the boot / So don't be chatting greaze to me or this will happen to / You, you and you",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, London: 4th Estate, →ISBN, page 15:",
          "text": "Maybe Creeper wouldn't have done it if all the mandem hadn't been out on the block, soaking up the sun. But they were and Bloogz talked greaze, he didn't show man the slightest bit of respect, so Creeper had to do suttin.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 July 14, “Massacre”, in Beautiful and Brutal Yard, performed by J Hus:",
          "text": "Heard them talk greaze, but I didn't care / Won't take long to make him disappear",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Offensive and abusive language; contumely."
      ],
      "id": "en-greaze-en-noun-6zkgwpEm",
      "links": [
        [
          "Offensive",
          "offensive#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "abusive",
          "abusive#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "contumely",
          "contumely#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(MLE, slang) Offensive and abusive language; contumely."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Multicultural-London-English",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Multicultural London English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "48 41 6 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 44 3 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 March 18, “KMT”, in More Life, performed by Drake:",
          "text": "Life for my bruddas is deep / Long as they all on they feet / Long as they pockets is greaze (greaze!)",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 May 9, “Greaze Mode”, in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta ft. Nafe Smallz:",
          "text": "You know the steeze, super greaze",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Excellence."
      ],
      "id": "en-greaze-en-noun-Z4Qi0S1L",
      "links": [
        [
          "Excellence",
          "excellence#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(MLE, slang) Excellence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Multicultural-London-English",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "grease"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 144, column 1:",
          "text": "Greaze that's ſweaten / From the Murderers Gibbet, throw / Into the Flame.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of grease."
      ],
      "id": "en-greaze-en-noun-ZVjbTyoP",
      "links": [
        [
          "grease",
          "grease#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-greaze.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "greaze"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greazes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greazing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greazed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greazed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "greaze (third-person singular simple present greazes, present participle greazing, simple past and past participle greazed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "grease"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of grease."
      ],
      "id": "en-greaze-en-verb-ZVjbTyoP",
      "links": [
        [
          "grease",
          "grease#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-greaze.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "greaze"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "greaze",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Multicultural London English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't talk greaze to me.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 April 3, “Normal”, in Blue Battlefield, performed by Merky ACE:",
          "text": "Yeah, I spit greaze and I do not care",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 May 4, “Man Don't Care”performed by Jme:",
          "text": "How could a man with a uni degree / Be bussing up mic and chatting this greaze?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 June 26, “Praise the Lord (Da Shine)”, in Testing, performed by ASAP Rocky:",
          "text": "I hustle, I flex, the world is mine / So please believe, allow the greaze / These niggas disease, don't speak, we squeeze",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 October 31, “Family”, in Mic Righteous: I Am Reckless, performed by Mic Reckless:",
          "text": "Do your family back it, mine'll casually dash you in the boot / So don't be chatting greaze to me or this will happen to / You, you and you",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, London: 4th Estate, →ISBN, page 15:",
          "text": "Maybe Creeper wouldn't have done it if all the mandem hadn't been out on the block, soaking up the sun. But they were and Bloogz talked greaze, he didn't show man the slightest bit of respect, so Creeper had to do suttin.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 July 14, “Massacre”, in Beautiful and Brutal Yard, performed by J Hus:",
          "text": "Heard them talk greaze, but I didn't care / Won't take long to make him disappear",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Offensive and abusive language; contumely."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Offensive",
          "offensive#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "abusive",
          "abusive#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "contumely",
          "contumely#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(MLE, slang) Offensive and abusive language; contumely."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Multicultural-London-English",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Multicultural London English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 March 18, “KMT”, in More Life, performed by Drake:",
          "text": "Life for my bruddas is deep / Long as they all on they feet / Long as they pockets is greaze (greaze!)",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 May 9, “Greaze Mode”, in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta ft. Nafe Smallz:",
          "text": "You know the steeze, super greaze",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Excellence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Excellence",
          "excellence#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(MLE, slang) Excellence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Multicultural-London-English",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "grease"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English obsolete forms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 144, column 1:",
          "text": "Greaze that's ſweaten / From the Murderers Gibbet, throw / Into the Flame.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of grease."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grease",
          "grease#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-greaze.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "greaze"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greazes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greazing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greazed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greazed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "greaze (third-person singular simple present greazes, present participle greazing, simple past and past participle greazed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "grease"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English obsolete forms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of grease."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grease",
          "grease#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-greaze.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-greaze.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "greaze"
}

Download raw JSONL data for greaze meaning in English (5.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.