gril

Meaning

caprice, whim, impulse

Concepts

whim

caprice

notion

fancy

vagary

whimsy

maggot

mania

mood

freak

quirk

idiosyncracy

fixation

whimsey

whimsicality

humour

habit

impulse

Synonyms

nuk

kuur

bevlieging

bui

🚿

speling

rariteit

luim

idéé-fixe

inval

manie

opwelling

stokpaardje

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɣrɪl/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German grille (“cricket”) (modern Grille). Perhaps the shift in sense is due to a conflation of crickets with earwigs, involving the popular myth of insects which crawl through the ears to lay eggs in the brain, altering a person's behaviour.