Grue vs Gree - What's the difference?
grue | gree |
(archaic) To be frightened; to shudder with fear.
A shiver, a shudder
* 1921 , , The Path of the King , chapter 9
* 1964', Geoffrey Jenkins, ''A '''Grue of Ice (title)
Any byproduct of a gruesome event, i.e. gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.
* 1958 , Samuel Youd, writing as John Christopher, The Caves of Night
* 1996, Linda Badley, Writing Horror and the Body [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=iaHQorgoqd4C&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&sig=0unz5oiZA5IURViNe75MsU7vHG4]
* 2002, Carole Nelson Douglas, Chapel Noir [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=ZZu4sl0P1EAC&pg=PA336&lpg=PA336&sig=dPR0ntE54xw-h3m6fByM0fgJiuc]
* 2004, Talbot Mundy, Guns of the Gods [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=PUCcyz2L1iwC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&sig=REDDP_txW9FrUWEogxny6lZ4wUo]
A fictional predator that dwells in the dark.
* 1981 , Byte magazine (volume 6)
* 2009 , "Jas", Hazadous (SIC) Australian animals the GRUE.... your guide'' (on Internet newsgroup ''rec.travel.australia+nz )
* 2004 , "M.D. Dollahite", How would you imagine a grue?'' (on Internet newsgroup ''rec.games.int-fiction )
(philosophy) Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
* 1965 , , Fact, Fiction and Forecast ,
* 2007 , Michael Clark, Paradoxes from A to Z?
(linguistics) Green or blue, as a translation from languages such as Welsh that do not distinguish between these hues.
(label) One of a flight of steps.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) ,
(label) A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
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*:And thenne the kynge lete blowe to lodgynge / and by cause sir Palomydes beganne fyrste / and neuer he went nor rode oute of the feld to repose / but euer was doynge merueyllously wel outher on foote or on horsbak / and lengest durynge Kynge Arthur and alle the kynges gaf sir Palomydes the honour and the gree as for that daye
A degree.
Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
* 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
(archaic) Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.
* Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale :
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* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night . vol. 1:
(obsolete) To agree.
As a proper noun grue
is a municipality in hedmark, norway.As a verb gree is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) gruen. Probably from (etyl) gruwen or (etyl) gruwen (Dutch gruwen), both from (etyl) .Verb
(gru)Noun
(en noun)- There was a sharp grue of ice in the air.
Etymology 2
Noun
(-)- The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work
- There was grue everywhere after the accident
- 'I've told you - it wasn't much. He tried to kiss me.' She smiled slightly. 'Just after he had shown me the family skeletons.' / 'What a lovely bit of grue !'
- Carrie'' is Cinderella in the body language of menstrual blood and raging hormones. King’s adolescent joy in grimaces and groans, the ''Mad magazine humor, and the staple of “grue ” hardly need mentioning.
- “[...] She is quite agreeable to gruesome ghost stories, but appalled by the lust for life.” / “I admit that I am surprised by how well she handles sheer grue , better than I.”
- “This is the grue ,” said Dick, holding his lantern high. / Its light fell on a circle of skeletons, all perfect, each with its head toward a brass bowl in the center.
Etymology 3
Probably from (gruesome); first used in Jack Vance's (1980).Noun
(en noun)- I managed to get into the house through the front once, but I was plunged into darkness and eaten by a monster called a grue .
- To find a grue , turn off the light at night, or go for a walk in a dark place (but carry a flashlight with you).
- Incidentally, the best official text description I know of is in Sorcerer, when you actually become a grue and visit a grue colony. IIRC, even that description is vague, but does cannonize(SIC) that they are large four-legged reptiles.
Etymology 4
. Coined by to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science.Adjective
(Distinguishing blue from green in language) (-)- The grue property is defined as: x'' is grue if and only if ''x'' is green and is observed before the year 2000, or ''x is blue and is not observed before the year 2000.
- The unexamined emeralds cannot be both green and grue , since if they are grue and unexamined they are blue.
See also
* bleen *Anagrams
* ----gree
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Compare (degree), (grade).Noun
(en noun)Chapter 5:
- "My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees , for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock."
- He is a shepherd great in gree .
Etymology 2
From (pre-reform) (etyl) , from Old (etyl) (gray).Noun
- bycause Sir Palomydes beganne fyrste, and never he wente nor rode oute of the fylde to repose hym, but ever he was doynge on horsebak othir on foote, and lengest durynge, Kynge Arthure and all the kynges gaff Sir Palomydes the honoure and the gre as for that day.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- And notified is þur?out þe toun / Þat every wi?t, wiþ greet devocioun, / Sholde preyen Crist þat he þis mariage / Recyve in gree and spede þis viage.
- Accept in gree , my lord, the words I spoke.
- When it was the Second Night, said Dunyazad to her sister Shahrazad, "O my sister, finish for us that story of the Merchant and the Jinni;" and she answered "With joy and goodly gree , if the King permit me."
Etymology 3
Verb
- (Fuller)