grue

Meanings

1. To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.

1. A shiver, a shudder.

1. Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.

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

1. Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
2. 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.

1. The property of being green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
2. 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.

1. Nutraloaf, a bland mixture of foods served in prisons.

1. A municipality of Innlandet, Norway, formerly part of the county of Hedmark.

Etymology

From Middle English gruen, probably from Middle Low German gruwen or Middle Dutch gruwen (compare Dutch gruwen), both from Proto-Germanic *grūwijaną, perhaps ultimately an imitative derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”), or instead from *gʰer- (“to rub, stroke, grind”).