gruger
French, verb/ɡʁy.ʒe/
gruger is spelled G-R-U-G-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 63,613th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gruger is a French verb meaning “to dupe, con; to rob” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “ou Briser quelque chose de dur ou de sec avec les dents”.
What does gruger mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto dupe, con; to rob
- 2
colloquialto devour, scoff
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ou Briser quelque chose de dur ou de sec avec les dents. 2. Briser, avec un marteau à pointes de diamant, certaines matières dures qui ne pourraient être entamées par un outil tranchant. 3. Briser, avec un grugeoir, certaines matières dures en feuilles qu’il serait incommode d’entamer avec un outil tranchant. 4. Manger le bien de quelqu’un, lui extorquer ce qu’il possède, lui faire perdre son argent.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gruger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grugeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- grugé participle past
- gruge first-person indicative present
- gruges indicative present second-person
- grugeons first-person indicative plural
- grugez indicative plural present
- grugent indicative plural present
- grugeais first-person imperfect indicative
- grugeait imperfect indicative singular
- grugions first-person imperfect indicative
- grugiez imperfect indicative plural
- grugeaient imperfect indicative plural
- grugeai first-person historic indicative
- grugeas historic indicative past
- grugea historic indicative past
- grugeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gruger?
- /ɡʁy.ʒe/
- \ɡʁy.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gruger in French?
gruger appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).