Grippe

Alternative forms

• grip

Origin

18th Century Borrowing from fr {{2}} grippe, from gripper ("to seize"), of origin; German greifen ("to grip")

Full definition of grippe

Noun

1. (pathology) Influenza, the flu (Influenza).
• 1907, w, The Younger Set Chapter 4, “Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins,” remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir ; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs ; … .

Derived terms

• grippy