grullo

• grulla

Borrowed from Spanish grullo, from grulla (“crane (bird)”).

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, published 2014, page 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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrul.lo/
• Rhymes: -ullo
• Hyphenation: grùl‧lo

grullo (feminine grulla, masculine plural grulli, feminine plural grulle)

1. (dialectal, Tuscany) stupid, silly

grullo m (plural grulli, feminine grulla)

1. fool, idiot

• grullagine

• grullo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• grullo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• grullo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• grùllo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• grullo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• grullo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From grulla (“crane”).

• Syllabification: gru‧llo

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

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

• “grullo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024