guro

Reborrowed from Japanese グロ (guro), from English grotesque.

guro (uncountable)

1. A subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.

   Hypernym: gore

   • 2009, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction:

     And maybe the Moravecian dream would be especially exciting for fans of guro manga who want to live out all the fantasies to have sex like the immortal Mai in Waita Uziga's Mai-chan's Daily Life, who stay alive even after being violently mutilated […]

   • 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Animation & Cartoons:

     The scope of hentai encompasses the entire range of sexual fetishes, including […] Guro, focusing on imaginative gore and mutilation.

• ero-guro

• gour

guro

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぐろ
2. Rōmaji transcription of グロ

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡuro]

guro f

1. vocative singular of gură

Borrowed from Malay guru, ultimately from Sanskrit गुरु (gurú). Reintroduced by Eusebio T. Daluz in the early 20th century as a replacement to the previously used words maestro and maestra, both of Spanish origin. Doublet of gulo, the original obsolete term from Malay guru that was lost in the course of the 19th century. Compare English guru.

• Hyphenation: gu‧ro
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuɾoʔ/, [ˈɡu.ɾoʔ]
• IPA^(key): /ɡuˈɾoʔ/, [ɡʊˈɾoʔ]

gurò or gurô (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜇᜓ)

1. teacher; educator; instructor

   Synonyms: maestro, maestra, titser, tagapagturo

• Jean-Paul G. POTET (2016) Seventeenth-Century Events at Liliw‎, Jean-Paul G. POTET, page 42