動詞

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. 〈不及物〉〈古〉 害怕，戰慄
   • 1822, Sir , , 卷 I, Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea，頁號s 111–112:

     “It is seenteen hundred linen,” said the pedlar, giving a tweak to one of the shirts, in that knowing manner with which matrons and judges ascertain the texture of the loom ; “it’s seenteen hundred linen, and as strong as an it were dowlas. Nevertheless, mother, your bidding is to be done ; and I would have done Mr. Mordaunt’s bidding too,” he added, relaxing from his note of defiance, into the deferential whining tone with which he cajoled his customers, “if he hadna made use of profane oaths which made my very flesh grue, and caused me, in some sort, to forget myself.”

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

名詞

(複數)

1. 顫抖
   • 1921, John Buchan, 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)

名詞

(不可數)

1. 恐怖事件所造成的後果。

   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

     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

     “[...] 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

     “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.

名詞

(複數)

1. 一種居於黑暗中的吃人者。
   • 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 Template: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 cannonizeTemplate:SIC that they are large four-legged reptiles.

形容詞

(無比較級)

1. 指物品粗看是綠色或藍色的。
   • 1965, Nelson Goodman, 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.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

2. 指部分語言（如威爾士語）中不經區分的綠色或藍色的。

名詞

(不可數)

1. 〈俚〉 監獄的混合雜菜

派生詞

名詞

 f 或 m (定單數，不定複數，定複數)

1. 爐床

動詞

(現在時，一般過去式，或，或，過去分詞，或，或)

1. 因預見將要發生的事而不安，緊張

   Han gruet for morgendagen.

   他對明天（將要發生的事情）感到不安。

   Han grudde seg til n.

   他對要去看牙醫這件事感到很緊張。