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# {{lb|en|online gaming}} To [[deliberately]] [[harass]] and [[annoy]] or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; ''especially'', to do this as one’s primary activity in the game. {{defdate|from late 1990s}} |
# {{lb|en|online gaming}} To [[deliberately]] [[harass]] and [[annoy]] or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; ''especially'', to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and without using cheats. {{defdate|from late 1990s}} |
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#* {{quote-web|en|title=Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World|author={{w|Julian Dibbell}}|work=Wired|date=2008-01-18|url=https://www.wired.com/2008/01/mf-goons/|passage=While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized '''griefing''', grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated pathology, '''griefing''' has developed a full-fledged culture.}} |
#* {{quote-web|en|title=Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World|author={{w|Julian Dibbell}}|work=Wired|date=2008-01-18|url=https://www.wired.com/2008/01/mf-goons/|passage=While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized '''griefing''', grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated pathology, '''griefing''' has developed a full-fledged culture.}} |
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Revision as of 18:38, 2 June 2023
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.
Pronunciation
Noun
grief (countable and uncountable, plural griefs or grieves)
- Suffering, hardship. [from early 13th c.]
- The neighbour's teenage give me grief every time they see me.
- Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. [from early 14th c.]
- She was worn out from so much grief.
- The betrayal caused Jeff grief.
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- (countable) Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 53:4:
- Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
grief (third-person singular simple present griefs, present participle griefing, simple past and past participle griefed)
- (online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and without using cheats. [from late 1990s]
- 2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in Wired[1]:
- While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized griefing, grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated pathology, griefing has developed a full-fledged culture.
Usage notes
Related terms
Further reading
grief on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
griefer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “grief”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “grief”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “grief”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch grief, from Old French grief, from early Medieval Latin grevem, alteration of Latin gravem.
Pronunciation
Noun
grief f (plural grieven, diminutive griefje n)
- (chiefly in the plural) grievance, complaint, bone to pick, issue
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French grief, from early Medieval Latin grevem, alteration of Latin gravem. Doublet of grave, a borrowing from Latin.
Pronunciation
Adjective
grief (feminine griève, masculine plural griefs, feminine plural grièves)
Derived terms
Noun
grief m (plural griefs)
Further reading
- “grief”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Ladin
Etymology
From early Medieval Latin grevem, alteration of Latin gravem.
Adjective
grief m (feminine singular grieva, masculine plural griefs, feminine plural grieves)
Old French
Alternative forms
- gref (typically Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
From early Medieval Latin grevem, alteration of Latin gravem.
Noun
grief oblique singular, m (oblique plural griés, nominative singular griés, nominative plural grief)
Descendants
Adjective
grief m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grieve)
- sad
- late 12th century, anonymous author, La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford, page 386 (of the Champion Classiques edition of Le Roman de Tristan, →ISBN, line 552:
- Mult ai le quer gref e marri.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
- French: grief (archaic, literary)
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷreh₂-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
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- Rhymes:English/iːf
- Rhymes:English/iːf/1 syllable
- English lemmas
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- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- English verbs
- en:Video games
- English internet slang
- en:Emotions
- en:Pain
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Old French
- Dutch terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Dutch terms derived from Latin
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- Rhymes:Dutch/if
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- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch feminine nouns
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Medieval Latin
- French terms derived from Medieval Latin
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
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- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
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- French terms with archaic senses
- French literary terms
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Ladin terms inherited from Medieval Latin
- Ladin terms derived from Medieval Latin
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- Old French terms inherited from Medieval Latin
- Old French terms derived from Medieval Latin
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- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- Old French adjectives
- Old French terms with quotations