grullo

Spanish 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 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.

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

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

1. (dialectal, Tuscany) stupid, silly

grullo m (plural grulli, feminine grulla)

1. fool, idiot

• grullagine

From grulla (“crane”)

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾuʎo/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾuɟ͡ʝo/, [ˈɡɾuʝo]

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

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