grass
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *grasą
Proto-West Germanic *gras
Old English græs
Middle English gras
English grass
Inherited from Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots gress (“grass”), North Frisian gaars, geers, Gērs, gjars, gjas, gäärs (“grass”), Saterland Frisian Gäärs (“grass”), West Frisian gers (“grass”), Cimbrian gras, grass (“grass”), German and Luxembourgish Gras (“grass, weed”), Dutch gras (“grass, turf, pasture”), Mòcheno and Vilamovian gros (“grass”), West Flemish ges (“grass”), Yiddish גראָז (groz, “grass”), Danish græs (“grass”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk gras (“grass”), Norwegian Bokmål gras, gress (“grass”), Swedish gräs (“grass”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃 (gras, “herb”); also Latin herba (“plant, weed, grass”), Albanian grath (“grass blade, spike”). Related to grow, green.
The "informer" sense is probably a shortening of grasshopper (“police officer, informant”), rhyming slang for copper (“police officer”) or shopper (“informant”); the exact sequence of derivation is unclear.
Inflected forms:
form: grasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grassed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thou turnest man to destruction: and sayest, Returne yee children of men. / For a thousand yeeres in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past: and as a watch in the night. / Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they are as a sleepe: in the morning they are like grasse which groweth vp. / In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth vp: in the euening it is cut downe, and withereth.
The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.
'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
gloss: Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A lawn.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona / For some California grass
gloss: An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
examples: What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.
He was a grass and an arse lick and he didn't do it for him, he did it for his brother, because if Vaughan had hit him especially with his mallet, Mark was the kind of lowlife that would have pressed charges and then that's a whole different problem.
Another claimed a £10,000 bounty was put on his head as he was rumoured to be a “grass”.
gloss: Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: The problem in radar detection is to have a signal to noise ratio that will allow the echo to be seen through the grass on the radar screen. The use of a long pulse allows a greater average signal strength to be returned in the target echoes.
Some of the scattered waves can be picked up by the receiver and may show up as "grass" on the radar presentation. Weather radars make use of this phenomenon to chart the progress of storms.
gloss: The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is transitory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
obsolete
examples: The grasse withereth, the flowre fadeth; because the spirit of the Lord bloweth vpon it: surely the people is grasse.
gloss: Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 'Have ready a hundred of ſmall graſs boiled, then ſave tops enough to ſtick the rolls with, the reſt cut ſmall and put into the cream, fill the loaves with them.'
gloss: The surface of a mine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Chicken himself attributed this punishment to his having had the misfortune to get into Chancery early in the proceedings, when he was severely fibbed by the Larkey one, and heavily grassed.
He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
gloss: To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
transitive
examples: "Grassed on me he did," I said morosely. (Note: Grass is English thief slang for inform.)^([sic])
"I'm dressed as a woman, but I am still technically a man. I believe that to comply with the law of the land I ought to continue to use the Gents', but in order not to look out place I intend to use the Ladies' from now on. I trust none of you will grass on me..."
gloss: To cover with grass or with turf.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To feed with grass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let him hook and land a tigerfish of 20 lb., at the imminent risk of capsizing and joining the company of the engaging crocodiles, or, when he has grassed the fish, of having a finger bitten off by his iron teeth […]
In typical Necker style, the farmer walked to the line and mounted his gun without any shilly-shally. If he grassed the bird, he and Faurote would go into a shootout. If he missed, Faurote would win.
Synonyms: grass
Related words: Poaceae
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Derived words: above grass
adder's grass
after-grass
aftergrass
Aleppo grass
alfa grass
alkali grass
all cows eat grass
Angleton grass
annual meadow grass
Antarctic hair grass
arrowgrass
ass in the grass
autograss
Bahama grass
bahia grass
bahiagrass
bamboo grass
barnyard grass
basketgrass
beachgrass
beardgrass
beargrass
beetle grass
bentgrass
bent grass
Bermuda grass
billion-dollar grass
bison grass
blackgrass
black oat grass
blade of grass
blind grass
blue-eyed grass
blue grass
bluegrass
bluejoint reed grass
bluestem grass
bristlegrass
broadleaf carpet grass
bromegrass
buffalo grass
bunchgrass
bunch grass
bunny grass
burgrass
bushman grass
button grass
California grass
canary grass
canegrass
carnation-grass
carpet grass
cat grass
centipede grass
cheatgrass
cheat grass
Chilcotts Grass
China grass
Christmas grass
citronella grass
clover grass
clubgrass
cockatoo grass
cogon grass
cogongrass
congress grass
cordgrass
cottongrass
couch grass
couch-grass
cow's grass
crabgrass
crowngrass
cusa-grass
cusa grass
cutgrass
cutty grass
daba grass
deergrass
deer's grass
devil grass
devil's-grass
diamond grass
dog grass
dog's-tail grass
dogtooth grass
doob grass
doub grass
Easter grass
eelgrass
Efwatakala grass
elephant grass
esparto grass
eyelash grass
feathergrass
feather grass
feather-grass
fever grass
finger grass
flyaway grass
fountaingrass
frass
gama grass
get to grass
goatgrass
go into the long grass
Good Friday grass
goosegrass
gordura grass
go to grass
gramagrass
grass assassin bug
grass bass
grass beef
grass-bird
grassbird
grassbox
grass carp
grass cat
grass catcher
grass cloth
grasscloth
grass-cock
grass-comber
grass court
grass crab spider
grass crown
grasscutter
grasscutting
grasscycle
grasscycling
grass dance
grass-dart
grass-eater
grasseater
grasseous
grass-fed
grassfield
grassfinch
grass fire
grassfire
grass frog
grass-green
grass-grown
grass grub
grass hand
grasshawk
grass hockey
grasshook
grasshopper
grass jelly
grass knot
grassland
grassless
grasslike
grassling
grass moon
grass moth
grass mud horse
grass of Parnassus
grass oil
grassoline
grass on
grass parrot
grass-pea
grass pea
grass pink
grassplat
grassplot
grass plot
grass plover
grassquit
grass rake
grass rat
grassroot
grass-rooted
grassroots
grass roots
grass-roots
grass script
grass seed
grass shrimp
grass sickness
grass-skipper
grass skirt
grass snake
grass staggers
grass tetany
grass time
grass top
grass-tops
grass tops
grass trap
grass tree
grassture
grass up
grass warbler
grassweed
grass widow
grass-widowed
grass widower
grass widowhood
grasswork
grasswren
grassy
grass-yellow
greasegrass
green as grass
Guatemala grass
Guinea grass
hair grass
hairgrass
halfa grass
hardgrass
Harding grass
hariali grass
haver-grass
heartbreak grass
hear the grass grow
herds-grass
hippo grass
hit into the long grass
hog grass
holy grass
honey grass
Howards Grass
Japanese pampas grass
Johnson grass
joint grass
Junegrass
kangaroo grass
kans grass
kauri grass
kick into the long grass
kikuyu grass
Kikuyu grass
knotgrass
kuskus grass
Lagoon Grass
lawngrass
lemongrass
let the grass grow round one's feet
let the grass grow under one's feet
little bluestem grass
longgrass
Louisiana grass
love grass
lyme grass
maiden grass
Manila grass
mannagrass
Mardi Grass
marram grass
marsh grass
marvel grass
matgrass
meadow grass
meadow grass dermatitis
Means grass
Merlin's grass
mesquite grass
Mexican feather grass
midge grass
midgrass
Mitchell grass
molasses grass
monkey grass
moor grass
mow the grass
much grass
muraina grass
muttongrass
Nairobi grass rat
nanograss
Napier grass
needle-and-thread grass
needlegrass
Neptune grass
nipa grass
nitgrass
nongrass
nut-grass
nutgrass
oat grass
oatgrass
one's ass is grass
onion grass
orchard grass
orchardgrass
oyster grass
paddle grass
painted grass
palm grass
pampas grass
pangola grass
Pará grass
Para grass
para grass
pearl grass
penny grass
penny-grass
peppergrass
pigeongrass
pineapple grass
pinegrass
pin grass
pinhole grass
plume grass
porcupine grass
poverty grass
pudding grass
punt into the long grass
purple three-awn grass
push into the long grass
put out to grass
quack grass
quack-grass
quackgrass
quake grass
quaking grass
quitch grass
quitchgrass
Randall grass
rattlesnake grass
Ravenna grass
ray grass
razor grass
redhead grass
redtop grass
reedgrass
reed grass
regrass
rescue grass
Rhodes grass
ribbongrass
ribgrass
rice grass
ricegrass
ripgut grass
robin-run-in-the-grass
rope grass
rosha grass
rye-grass
rye grass
ryegrass
salt grass
saltgrass
sawgrass
saw-grass
saw grass
scented grass
scorpion grass
scratchgrass
scrubgrass
scurvy-grass
scurvy grass
scutch grass
sea couch grass
seagrass
sedge grass
serpent-grass
shadow grass
shavegrass
shaving-grass
sheda grass
shoal grass
shortgrass
silkgrass
single-striped grass mouse
slough grass
smutgrass
snake-grass
snake in the grass
snowgrass
sour grass
sourgrass
Spanish grass
sparrow-grass
sparrow grass
spear grass
speargrass
spikegrass
spotless grass yellow
squirrel grass
squitch grass
star grass
sticker grass
stiltgrass
sudangrass
sugar grass
supergrass
susuki grass
sweetgrass
Sweet Grass County
sweet vernal grass
switchgrass
switch grass
swordgrass
sword grass
tallgrass
tapegrass
tape grass
Tasmanian grass grub
thatching grass
the grass is always greener
the grass is always greener on the other side
the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
the grass is always greener on the other side of the road
ticklegrass
tiger grass
timothy grass
tinker tailor grass
toad-grass
tongue grass
toothache grass
tottergrass
touch grass
touch some grass
turfgrass
tussac grass. tussock grass
twitch grass
Uganda grass
umbrella grass
Vasey grass
Vasey's grass
velvetgrass
vernal grass
vernalgrass
wallaby grass
watch grass grow
watergrass
wheatgrass
whiskey grass
whitlow grass
widgeon grass
wind-grass
windmill grass
wiregrass
witchgrass
witch grass
woolgrass
wormgrass
yardgrass
yellow bristle grass
yellow-eyed grass
zoysiagrass
grasser
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