Grue

Quick meaning: Grue is a verb meaning (intransitive, archaic except Northern England, Scotland) To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.

Meaning

(intransitive, archaic except Northern England, Scotland) To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.

More Meanings

1. (Scotland) A shiver, a shudder.
2. Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.
3. A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark.
4. (philosophy) Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
5. (philosophy) The property of being green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
6. (linguistics) Of a single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as Old Welsh and Old Chinese that did not always distinguish between green and blue.
7. (linguistics) A single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as Old Welsh and Old Chinese that did not always distinguish between green and blue.

Example Sentences

A Grue of Ice

There was grue everywhere after the accident

A cold grue went through me—I was unable to touch such a hand.

The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work

Word Forms

• grues
• gruing
• grueing
• grued

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crane, grew, agrize, fright, perhorresce, grame.

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