1888. Paton, Down the Islands. People who, as hosts, live up to their green turtle. Greenwich Barber, subs. (old).—A retailer of sand from the Greenwich pits. [A pun upon ‘shaving’ the banks.] 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Greenwich-Goose, subs. (old).—A pensioner of Greenwich Hospital. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Greeny, subs. (old theatrical).—1. The curtain. [From the colour.] Also Green-rag. 1821. Egan, Tom and Jerry, p. 110 [ed. 1890]. It is far more difficult to please the company behind Greeny; I beg pardon, sir, I should have said than the audience before the curtain. 2. (University).—A freshman. For synonyms, see Snooker. 1834. Southey, The Doctor, ch. i. He was entered among the greenies of this famous University. 3. (common).—A simpleton; a Greenhorn (q.v.). For synonyms, see Buffle and Cabbage-head. 1852. Judson, Myst., etc., of New York, part III., ch. 9, p. 58. Anybody could know that these was took by a greeny. 1887. Congregationalist, 7 April. Jim said I was a greeny ... [and] that he had a lot of houses. Greetin’ Fu’, adv. phr. (Scots’), Drunk: literally ‘crying drunk.’ For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed. Greeze, subs. (Westminster School).—A crowd; a push (q.v.). Gregorian, subs. (old).—A kind of wig worn in the 17th century. [After the inventor, one Gregory, a barber in the Strand.] 1658. Honest Ghost, p. 46. Pulling a little down his Gregorian. Gregorian-tree, subs. (old).—The gallows. [After a sequence of three hangmen of the name.] For synonyms, see Nubbing-cheat. 1641. Mercurius Pragmaticus. This trembles under the black rod, and he Doth fear his fate from the Gregorian tree. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Gregorine, subs. (common).—A louse; specifically, head vermin. [From the Italian.] For synonyms, see Chates. Greshamite, subs. (old).—A Fellow of the Royal Society.—B. E. [1690.] Grey.—See Gray, passim. Griddle, subs. (streets’).—To sing in the streets. Whence, Griddling = street-singing; griddler = a street-singer. 1851–61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor. Got a month for griddling in the main drag. 1877. Besant and Rice, Son of Vulcan, pt. I., ch. xii. Cardiff Jack’s never got so low as to be griddling on the main drag—singing, I mean, on the high-road. 1888. W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, ch. iv., p. 53. They [street singers] have not yet invented Moody and Sankey, and therefore they cannot sing ‘Hold the Fort’ or ‘Dare to be a Daniel,’ but there are hymns in every collection which suit the gridler. 1890. Daily Telegraph, 20 May. Singing or shouting hymns in the streets on Sundays. To this system the name of gridling has been applied. The gridlers, it was stated, were known to boast, as they returned to their haunts in Deptford and Southwark, how much they could make in a few hours.