For a monster? The most common ME definition I've seen is "to shudder", related to "gruesome". Vance in his Dying Earth stories in the '60s seems to have popularized using the word for a monster.
Yes as a Grue was something that caused one to Shudder (I.E. is was an indescribable terror) the term itself is even older but you get out of english chasing it down. It does appear in some poetry as well using it as reference to something that causes one to shudder .. an unseen or indescribable monster.
1275–1325; Middle English: The term Grue predates everyone reading this.
ReplyDeleteFor a monster? The most common ME definition I've seen is "to shudder", related to "gruesome". Vance in his Dying Earth stories in the '60s seems to have popularized using the word for a monster.
ReplyDeleteYes as a Grue was something that caused one to Shudder (I.E. is was an indescribable terror) the term itself is even older but you get out of english chasing it down. It does appear in some poetry as well using it as reference to something that causes one to shudder .. an unseen or indescribable monster.
ReplyDeleteI am just saying it follows the trope of http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThantheyThink