GRUE

Grue

A grue is a predator that dwells in the dark. The word was first used in modern times as a fictional predator in Jack Vance's Dying Earth

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grue

Noun

  1. A shiver, a shudder

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Any byproduct of a gruesome event, i.e. gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.
    The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work
    There was grue everywhere after the accident

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. A fictional predator that dwells in the dark.

Verb

  1. To be frightened; to shudder with fear.

Adjective

  1. Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
  2. Green or blue, as a translation from languages such as Welsh that do not distinguish between these hues.


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