"gricer" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From grice, supposed plural of grouse (on analogy to mouse/mice), likening a person who identifies railway locomotives to a sportsman who bags grouse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gricers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "gricer (plural gricers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
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            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981 December 10, “Feedback”, in New Scientist, volume 92, number 1283, page 723:",
          "text": "The train was stuffed full of journalists and gricers, as railway enthusiasts are pejoratively termed. Some of the gricers, earnest, fresh-faced young men, almost to a person, who cut their milk teeth on Hornby trains, had booked on this train two years ago.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jim Warren, The Lulworth Triangle: 1, page 24:",
          "text": "Such an eclectic mix of rolling stock also created the movement of standing train spotters and inspired the early gricers, those enthusiastic train photographers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Michael Williams, The Trains Now Departed: Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain's Railways, page 22:",
          "text": "This Delphi of railway enthusiasm, this holy grail for gricers, has a lure at least as strong as its grander contemporaries such as the Settle & Carlisle or West Highland Line, which were saved from closure and are still alive today.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 63:",
          "text": "Betjeman, who was a bit of a gricer, wrote: \"I know of no greater pleasure for elevenses in London than to sit in this tea place and watch the trains arrive and depart.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A railway enthusiast, a trainspotter."
      ],
      "id": "en-gricer-en-noun-cbPKIpKq",
      "links": [
        [
          "railway",
          "railway"
        ],
        [
          "enthusiast",
          "enthusiast"
        ],
        [
          "trainspotter",
          "trainspotter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A railway enthusiast, a trainspotter."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "grice"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "railway enthusiast",
          "word": "ferroequinologist"
        },
        {
          "sense": "railway enthusiast",
          "word": "gunzel"
        },
        {
          "sense": "railway enthusiast",
          "word": "railfan"
        },
        {
          "sense": "railway enthusiast",
          "word": "trainspotter"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gricer"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From grice, supposed plural of grouse (on analogy to mouse/mice), likening a person who identifies railway locomotives to a sportsman who bags grouse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gricers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gricer (plural gricers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "grice"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981 December 10, “Feedback”, in New Scientist, volume 92, number 1283, page 723:",
          "text": "The train was stuffed full of journalists and gricers, as railway enthusiasts are pejoratively termed. Some of the gricers, earnest, fresh-faced young men, almost to a person, who cut their milk teeth on Hornby trains, had booked on this train two years ago.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jim Warren, The Lulworth Triangle: 1, page 24:",
          "text": "Such an eclectic mix of rolling stock also created the movement of standing train spotters and inspired the early gricers, those enthusiastic train photographers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Michael Williams, The Trains Now Departed: Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain's Railways, page 22:",
          "text": "This Delphi of railway enthusiasm, this holy grail for gricers, has a lure at least as strong as its grander contemporaries such as the Settle & Carlisle or West Highland Line, which were saved from closure and are still alive today.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 63:",
          "text": "Betjeman, who was a bit of a gricer, wrote: \"I know of no greater pleasure for elevenses in London than to sit in this tea place and watch the trains arrive and depart.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A railway enthusiast, a trainspotter."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "railway",
          "railway"
        ],
        [
          "enthusiast",
          "enthusiast"
        ],
        [
          "trainspotter",
          "trainspotter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A railway enthusiast, a trainspotter."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "railway enthusiast",
      "word": "ferroequinologist"
    },
    {
      "sense": "railway enthusiast",
      "word": "gunzel"
    },
    {
      "sense": "railway enthusiast",
      "word": "railfan"
    },
    {
      "sense": "railway enthusiast",
      "word": "trainspotter"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gricer"
}