Meaning of grue | Babel Free

Definitions

To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.

Scotland, intransitive

Examples

“["]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."”

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