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grue | grub |

As a proper noun grue

is a municipality in hedmark, norway.

As a noun grub is

(countable) an immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.

As a verb grub is

to scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.

grue

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) gruen. Probably from (etyl) gruwen or (etyl) gruwen (Dutch gruwen), both from (etyl) .

Verb

(gru)
  • (archaic) To be frightened; to shudder with fear.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shiver, a shudder
  • * 1921 , , The Path of the King , chapter 9
    • There was a sharp grue of ice in the air.
  • * 1964', Geoffrey Jenkins, ''A '''Grue of Ice (title)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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
  • * 1958 , Samuel Youd, writing as John Christopher, The Caves of Night
    • '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 !'
  • * 1996, Linda Badley, Writing Horror and the Body [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=iaHQorgoqd4C&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&sig=0unz5oiZA5IURViNe75MsU7vHG4]
    • 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.
  • * 2002, Carole Nelson Douglas, Chapel Noir [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=ZZu4sl0P1EAC&pg=PA336&lpg=PA336&sig=dPR0ntE54xw-h3m6fByM0fgJiuc]
    • “[...] 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.”
  • * 2004, Talbot Mundy, Guns of the Gods [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=PUCcyz2L1iwC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&sig=REDDP_txW9FrUWEogxny6lZ4wUo]
    • “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)
  • A fictional predator that dwells in the dark.
  • * 1981 , Byte magazine (volume 6)
    • 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 .
  • * 2009 , "Jas", Hazadous (SIC) Australian animals the GRUE.... your guide'' (on Internet newsgroup ''rec.travel.australia+nz )
    • 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).
  • * 2004 , "M.D. Dollahite", How would you imagine a grue?'' (on Internet newsgroup ''rec.games.int-fiction )
    • 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) (-)
  • (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 ,
    • 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.
  • * 2007 , Michael Clark, Paradoxes from A to Z?
    • The unexamined emeralds cannot be both green and grue , since if they are grue and unexamined they are blue.
  • (linguistics) Green or blue, as a translation from languages such as Welsh that do not distinguish between these hues.

    • See also

    * bleen *

    Anagrams

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    grub

    English

    (wikipedia grub)

    Noun

  • (countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
  • (uncountable, slang) Food.
  • (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
    • (Carew)
    Synonyms
    * (immature insect): larva * : nosh, tucker
    Derived terms
    * grubby * witchetty grub

    Related terms

    * caterpillar * maggot * worm

    Verb

    (grubb)
  • To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
  • To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up .
    • to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
  • * Hare
    • They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
  • (slang) To supply with food.
    • (Charles Dickens)

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