grass

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A common green plant with thin leaves that covers fields, lawns, and gardens.

   The children played on the grass in the park.

2. 2
   noun

   Marijuana (informal).

   He was arrested for selling grass.

3. 3
   noun

   A person who informs the police about criminals (British slang).

   Nobody in the gang trusted him after they learned he was a grass.

4. 4
   verb

   To inform the police about someone (British slang).

   He grassed on his own friends to avoid prison.

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Simplified etymology

Grass is an Old English word descended from the same root as green and grow.

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…

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