Gues vs Grues - What's the difference?
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(grue)
(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.
As a noun gues
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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.
