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grue

Speech parts

1. grue - Noun

2. grue - Adjective

3. grue - Verb

Meaning


grue (third-person singular simple present grues, present participle gruing, simple past and past participle grued)

(intransitive, archaic) To be frightened; to shudder with fear.


grue (plural grues)

A shiver, a shudder.


grue (uncountable)

Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as 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


grue (plural grues)

A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark.


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grue (not comparable)

(philosophy) Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.

(linguistics) A single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as old Welsh and Chinese that lacked a distinction between green and blue.


grue (uncountable)

(slang) Nutraloaf, a bland mixture of foods served in prisons.

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Clearly, we expect objects that were blue before 0 to remain blue afterwards, but we do not expect the objects that were found to be grue before 0 to be blue after 0, since after 0 they would be green. Source: Internet

The exception to this rule occurs when the player must use a spray can of grue repellent to navigate dark areas requiring an empty inventory in order to traverse. Source: Internet

An object is grue if it is blue before (say) 0 and green afterwards. Source: Internet

The most haunting segment for readers involves Molly Grue, an older woman working for a seedily charming highwaymen. Source: Internet

As dark as Lucky is light, Grue is a scowling, black-hearted fully-armed disaster waiting to happen. Source: Internet

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