Etymology of "grebt"?

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So, where did "grebt" come from and what exactly does it mean? Is it used to describe something good that isn't quite great (but is better than grect)?

― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i think i may have been there when 'grebt' came into being. erm, no scrub that! not at the actual time, oh dear this is terrible, but when the text message appeared in the glasshouse stores (if you type great into a mobile, but press 2 twice instead of once you get a b instead of an a).

― gareth, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Please please don't ask this. It is all my fault and down someone drunkenly texting me and presumably not having predictive texting. Anyway it is quite rude. But flattering to me ha ha.

― Emma, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You certainly weren't there Gareth! Unless I was drunker than I thought heh heh.

― Emma, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Now I REALLY want to know! (Email answers are acceptable.)

― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I cannot email it to you Dan your wife might find the message! I might do actually but you must promise not to broadcast it.

― Emma, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, the arrival of the txt rather than, yes, well

anyway, what i wanted to say is how amused i am that, of all people, the pinefox has used this world recently, presumably unaware of its origins.

― gareth, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I promise not to tell a soul. Except Joei, of course.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the word is older than that. I have a Recovered Memory of it.

― the pinefox, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i would like to know what ph33r and ph34r mean?

― Chris, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Perhaps it was Pinefox that sent the text message?

― RickyT, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha RickyT I am not sure if that is more offensive to me or to Mr Pinefox.

― Emma, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Thanks, Emma! That blows my original definition away!

― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hm - now *I* too need an explanation of the message I ph34567r.

― the pinefox, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes: if you can't share with the class maybe you should just keep it quiet, eh? (Fear my teacherly logic.)

― nabisco, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I need to know as well, I'm afraid.

Also: sux0r (and variations thereof), sistrah, evah.

I obv. know what they all mean, but are there similar stories of origin behind them?

― Mark, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is the "influence" of mark s.

― bnw, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I once got a text message from the Pinefox. Surely one of the stranges moments of my life.

― Ally C, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But did his text message use the word "grebt"?

― rosemary, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

may be had to txt because his mouth was full and he couldn't speak? (truly i am turning into mr djp)

― gareth, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

?!?!!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

How odd of gareth.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 29 February 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

It's something to do with blowjobs, I believe.
-- Ricardo (boyofbadger...), February 29th, 2004.

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it just means "great"
-- CarsmileSteve (carsmilestev...), February 29th, 2004.

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the mispelling was due to someone we know receiving a drunken txt msg from an ex-boyfriend claiming she "gave grebt head"
-- CarsmileSteve (carsmilestev...), February 29th, 2004.

― ..., Sunday, 29 February 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Finally, the truth comes out.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I will now use grebt in all future business correspondence. I promise. I will post back on what that begets.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 1 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i give grebt head.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 1 March 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.harkphoto.com/stork.jpeg
Behold! The Wattle Scroted Lawn Grebt!
The world's third ugliest bird.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 1 March 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The first two being, maybe...

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 1 March 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Me and my friend Vicky?

― C J (C J), Monday, 1 March 2004 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

I'm sure one must be the Grebt Crested Grebt.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 25 July 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

so originated on ILX?

― chrisco (chrisco), Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Please please don't ask this. It is all my fault and down someone drunkenly texting me and presumably not having predictive texting. Anyway it is quite rude. But flattering to me ha ha.
-- Emma (emmaluvscak...), July 19th, 2002.

― Emma gives grebt head, Sunday, 25 July 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

we don't say grebt nearly as much as we used to.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

What's the point if we can't make Emma blush????

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

ilx: google hit #4 for grebt

― Will M., Wednesday, 1 August 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

greßt

― ⅅ∊ȴℹҁℹσᴗᔔ Ӎℹȴⱪℹȵʛ (libcrypt), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 04:57 (sixteen years ago)

duh lib that means gresst.

― very quotatious (tehresa), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 04:58 (sixteen years ago)

but maybe gresst can be new grebt?

― very quotatious (tehresa), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 04:59 (sixteen years ago)

breßt

― ⅅ∊ȴℹҁℹσᴗᔔ Ӎℹȴⱪℹȵʛ (libcrypt), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 04:59 (sixteen years ago)

there you go.

― very quotatious (tehresa), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 05:00 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

Remember when everyone on ILX used "grebt"? It seems off trend now.

― love, light, and walkabout-thinking (admrl), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:26 (thirteen years ago)

(thinks back, gets all misty-eyed)

― Aimless, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:59 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

almost wrote it in an e-mail rn

realized it was not a regular word

googled it

ilx: google hit #4 for grebt
― Will M., Wednesday, 1 August 2007 13:57 (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no longer accurate -- we're #1

― Neckbread (Will M.), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:49 (eleven years ago)

five months pass...

I saw that blog entry about Grebt. Funny that this shows up on a US site. "Grebt" is swiss German from the Bernese area and means 'funeral feast'. Grebt is sometimes also written as Gräbt (do not confuse with the second person singular form of the German "graben" - "dig")

― alex_etym, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 09:41 (eleven years ago)

eight years pass...

https://www.nameslook.com/grebt

― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 13:36 (two years ago)

G Gifted
R Romance
E Enlightened
B Beloved
T Triumph

― Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 16:18 (two years ago)

Gasic
Rinstructions
Efore
Beaving
Tearth

― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 17:05 (two years ago)

Gasms
Rasms
Everlovin
Basm
Tasms

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 22:43 (two years ago)

I mentally read "Researcher, Flexible, Soft" like Wayne shilling for Nuprin

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 23:07 (two years ago)

the pronunciation audio clips are key

― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 23:18 (two years ago)

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