grig

Hard is her heart as flint or stone,She laughs to see me pale; And merry as a grig is grown,And brisk as bottled ale.

I drove through that region with my father when I was a young grig—not very full of hope about my woman's future.

Roy loved and obeyed Polly almost as readily as Peggy, and cavorted off beside her as gay as a grig.

Grig (greg in Sligo): a boy with sugarstick holds it out to another and says, 'grig, grig,' to triumph over him.

Pinched for standing-room, the comical old grig laughs and lies down!