A spoon or implement used to grease the griddle. The term is sometimes applied to a tough old fowl. The meaning in quot. 1854 is doubtful.
1843. On [my] being importunate for buckwheat cakes in the kitchen, Betty often threatened my face with “the griddle-greaser!”—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ ii. 246.
1845. See Appendix XV.
1854. The prolix-hating editor [was] bantered by the griddle-greaser.—Letter to the Weekly Oregonian, Aug. 19.
