Grue

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To shiver; shudder; feel horror.
  • (impersonal) To pain; grieve.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To be frightened; to shudder with fear.
  • noun. A shiver, a shudder
  • noun. A fictional predator that dwells in the dark.
  • noun. Any byproduct of a gruesome event, i.e. gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.
  • adjective. Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
  • adjective. Green or blue, as a translation from languages such as Welsh that do not distinguish between these hues.
  • Word Usage
    "Knowing that exactly such a ruinous retaliation was coming-and to people she liked, or even loved-gave her what her father called the grue: a cold sense of oppressive horror, coiling through the blood."
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