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gruel

[groo-uhl] / ˈgru əl /
NOUN
thin porridge
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Around the same time I was dying to grues, the summer of 1982, my older stepbrother somehow sneaked me into my first horror movie, John Carpenter’s “Thing” starring Kurt Russell.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2011

Of those who have seen grues, few have survived their fearsome jaws to tell the tale.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

No grues have ever been seen by the light of day, and only a few have been observed in their underground lairs.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

You play with good girls as though they were grues, and that no Frenchman would dare to do.

From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip




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