gruing

Verb

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

1. (Scotland, intransitive, archaic except Northern England) To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.
   • ["]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."1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 111–112

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