origins
nickname for a gray-haired man, from Middle English grice, gris ‘gray’ (Old French gris, apparently of Germanic origin, and probably a distant cognate of Gray).
from Middle English grice, grise ‘pig’ (Old Norse gríss, probably akin to Gray), hence a metonymic occupational name for a swineherd or a nickname.
Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Greis.
links
- https://stirnet.com/genie/data/british/gg/grice1.php (membership required in order to view without interruption)
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/search?&lastname=Grice&includeM...