gripe

[Robin Hamilton]

Further on "grue" ...

After poking around the dictionary, it occurred to me to poke inside my
head, and I realised that I hit on "grue" through the phrase (recognition
[literary] rather than use), "It gars me grue."

(At random from the Web:  "Siclike fowk gars me grue. Such people make me
shudder.")

This may be as common as it is, such as that is, since it was once used by
Walter Scott.

Robin

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> There's also "gi(v)es me the grue" (Makes me sick) and "gi(v)es me the
> boak"--the last one, historically bowk (and still that in Northern
> England) is usually a verb, to vomit.  "grue", I think, is the same word
> as the beginning of "gruesome".  Don't know if either of these words made
> it over here to the US.
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> Paul Johnston

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