gril, noun

/xrəl/
Forms:
Also grill.
Origin:
Afrikaans.
colloquial
A shudder, especially as a reaction to something weird or gruesome. Frequently in the plural, the grils, ‘the shivers’.
1973 Cape Times 21 June 7This wall chart, attractive (if you don’t mind the grrrils up and down your back) and tweetalig nogal, is to be distributed to all hospitals.
1982 Rhodeo (Rhodes Univ.) 6 Apr. 11I decided to take all the spooks out of the dark corners. All the things that gee me a gril.
1984 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)It gives me the grils just to think of it.
1991 E. Bruwer Informant, Cape Town, Western CapeShe gives me the grills.
A shudder, especially as a reaction to something weird or gruesome. Frequently in the plural, the grils, ‘the shivers’.
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Grigriqua, plural nounpl. n.Griqua, nounn.
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