different between shudder vs grue

English

Etymology

From Middle English *shudderen, *schuderen (suggested by Middle English shuddering, schudering (“shaking, quivering, shuddering”)), from Middle Dutch schudderen and/or Middle Low German schodderen, iterative forms of the verb at hand in Dutch schudden, Low German schüdden (both “to shake”), German schütten (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *skudjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *skewd?-. From Low German are also borrowed German schaudern (“to shudder”), Danish skudre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• Homophone: shutter (accents with flapping)
• Rhymes: -?d?(?)
• Hyphenation: shud?der

Noun

shudder (plural shudders)

1. A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.
2. A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.

Synonyms

• (shivering tremor): jiggle, quake, rumble, quiver
• (frisson): shiver (cold), quiver, tingle, thrill

Translations

Verb

shudder (third-person singular simple present shudders, present participle shuddering, simple past and past participle shuddered)

1. (intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
2. (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.

Synonyms

• (shake nervously): palpitate, shiver, shake, quake
• (vibrate jerkily): flutter, jiggle, shake, wiggle

Translations

See also

• judder

References

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: gro?o, IPA^(key): /??u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: grew

Etymology 1

From Middle English gruen, probably from Middle Low German gruwen or Middle Dutch gruwen (compare Dutch gruwen), both from Proto-Germanic *gr?wijan?.

Verb

grue (third-person singular simple present grues, present participle gruing, simple past and past participle grued)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To be frightened; to shudder with fear.

Translations

Noun

grue (plural grues)

1. A shiver, a shudder.
   • 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)

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from gruesome.

Noun

grue (uncountable)

1. Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as 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 [1]

     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 [2]

     “[...] 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 [3]

     “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 Dying Earth universe in the 1940s, but popularized by the text-based computer game Zork in 1980.

Noun

grue (plural grues)

1. A fictional man-eating 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

Blend of green +? blue. Coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science.

Adjective

grue (not comparable)

1. (philosophy) Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
   • 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.
2. (linguistics) Green or blue, as a translation from languages such as Welsh that do not distinguish between these hues.

Translations

See also

• aquamarine
• bleen
• blue-green
• turquoise
• Wikipedia article on grue

Etymology 5

Noun

grue (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

• Guer., Ruge, geru, regu, urge

French

Etymology

According to the TLFi, an early borrowing from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin *grua, from Latin gr?s, gruem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??y/

Noun

grue f (plural grues)

1. crane (bird)
2. crane (machine)
3. (colloquial) prostitute, hooker

Derived terms

• grue de Sibérie
• gruter
• grutier

Further reading

• “grue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• urge, urgé

Latin

Noun

grue

1. ablative singular of gr?s

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German [Term?], related to gruve (“mine”) and grav (“grave”).

Noun

grue f or m (definite singular grua or gruen, indefinite plural gruer, definite plural gruene)

1. fireplace

Synonyms

• ildsted

Etymology 2

From Low German gruwen.

Verb

grue (present tense gruer, simple past grua or gruet or grudde, past participle grua or gruet or grudd)

1. To be queasy or nervous in anticipation of something.

Usage notes

Can be used electively with the reflexive pronoun seg.

References

• “grue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German [Term?], related to gruve (“mine”) and grav (“grave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²?r???/

Noun

grue f (definite singular grua, indefinite plural gruer, definite plural gruene)

1. an open brick fireplace, a hearth

References

• “grue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Yola

Noun

grue

1. Alternative form of greve