griskin

griskin

(ˈɡrɪskɪn)
n
(Cookery) Brit the lean part of a loin of pork
[C17: probably from dialect gris pig, from Old Norse griss]
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Matthew Bramble's letter of 12 June describes a leavetaking scene between his sister Tabitha and a relative, Lady Griskin, in which the two women make ostentatious curtseys while privately cursing one another: "The expression of these two faces, while they continued in this attitude would be no bad subject for a pencil like that of the incomparable Hogarth, if any such should ever appear again, in these times of dulness and degeneracy" (135).
"How I want thee, humorous Hogart": the motif of the absent artist in Swift, fielding and others
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