<entry id="2345815" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1004130</ent_seq>
<r_ele>
<reb>グル</reb>
</r_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ぐる</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<misc>&col;</misc>
<gloss>accomplice</gloss>
<gloss>conspirator</gloss>
<gloss>cohort</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2012-07-02 14:46:37" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus</upd_name>
<upd_refs>http://gogen-allguide.com/ku/guru.html
usage example:
http://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/32878</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -6,0 +6,3 @@
+&lt;/r_ele&gt;
+&lt;r_ele&gt;
+&lt;reb&gt;グル&lt;/reb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-07-03 02:27:16" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-11-05 05:20:53" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>shinmeikai and obunsha have 俗 tags</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;col;&lt;/misc&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-11-05 05:37:34" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>GG5, etc.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -13,0 +14 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;conspirator&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-08-03 19:37:44" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_detl>surely more common</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -5 +5 @@
-&lt;reb&gt;ぐる&lt;/reb&gt;
+&lt;reb&gt;グル&lt;/reb&gt;
@@ -8 +8 @@
-&lt;reb&gt;グル&lt;/reb&gt;
+&lt;reb&gt;ぐる&lt;/reb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-08-04 10:53:50" stat="A">
<upd_uid>razasyedh</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Syed Raza</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>G n-grams:

グルになる 607 72.0%
ぐるになる 236 28.0%

グルになって 14,246 79.2%
ぐるになって  3,739 20.8%</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-08-04 11:43:50" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Those n-grams could be for the "other" グル entry. The JEs have this one in hiragana, and our two sentences use hiragana. Reverso only has the "guru" meaning for グル.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-08-04 13:11:47" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_refs>https://search.yahoo.co.jp/realtime/search?p=%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AB%E3%81%A0
https://search.yahoo.co.jp/realtime/search?p=%E3%81%90%E3%82%8B%E3%81%A0</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-08-04 22:09:28" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>parfait8</upd_name>
<upd_detl>i've pretty much always found it spelled as グル</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ グルだった │ 5,588 │ 90.4% │
│ ぐるだった │   596 │  9.6% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーー─┬─────┬───────╮
│ みんなグルだった │ 158 │100.0% │
│ みんなぐるだった │   0 │  0.0% │
╰─ーーーーーーーー─┴─────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-08-05 01:57:02" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Probably doesn't matter either way.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>