grullo

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish grulla (“crane (bird)”)

Noun

grullo (countable and uncountable, plural grullos)

1. A colouring of horses characterized by smoky or mouse-colored hairs on the body, often with shoulder and dorsal stripes and black barring on the lower legs.
2. A horse having this colouring.
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 251:

     At first light they followed the dim tracks of her father's grullo, nearly obliterated by the rain but, when she put herself in the right mind, clear enough to follow.

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Italian

Etymology

From Lombardic *grollo (“rancor, anger”).

Adjective

1. (dialectal, Tuscany) stupid, silly

Noun

grullo m (plural grulli, feminine grulla)

1. fool, idiot

Related terms

• grullagine

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Spanish

Etymology

From grulla (“crane”)

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾuʝo/ [ˈɡɾu.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈɡɾuʝo/ [ˈɡɾu.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /ˈɡɾuʎo/ [ˈɡɾu.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈɡɾuʃo/ [ˈɡɾu.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈɡɾuʒo/ [ˈɡɾu.ʒo]

Adjective

grullo (feminine grulla, masculine plural grullos, feminine plural grullas)

1. (Mexico, said of horses) having an ashen color.