Hopefully it's not a slur...
Hopefully it's not a slur...
Hopefully it's not a slur...
Who are you and how did you get in here!?
Your name is Lizardman Lizardman?
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
So likely his name, possibly only his last name.
‘Grinch’ is a holistic integration of multi-categorical nomenclatures.
Im going to use that on my friend who works in HR
He's not a who, he's a what
It’s a title, like village idiot.
or the village bicycle
Keep my wife's name out of your goddamned mouth!
or the village rapist
I can't find a specific image of it, only a reddit post talking about it, but in Grinch (2018) he buys green hair dye. I interpret that to mean he is just a normal whoville resident, but dyed green. I suppose his green grinch hair could be graying and he wants to look young, or he could just be some other color and chooses to be green, but I like to imagine him as some crazy naked hermit that makes himself green and everyone else just puts up with it.
I don't buy it. Anything beyond 1966 is not canon in Dr. Seuss' The Grinch-universe.
In Dr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), he was green since the day he was born drifted in on his pumbersella.
It's most likely either a species (like the sneetches) or, to my mind, a descriptor given to him by the narrator. Keep in mind no character (namely the grinch, who does speak) ever refers to himself as such. Sort of like if someone narrated your life and called you "the grouch".
I thought it was a character trait. I assumed he had a "Who" name, but no one uses it because he was being a dick all the time so they called him "the Grinch."
Yes
Sorry, going to be that person https://www.etymonline.com/word/Grinch
His full name is Ethan Grinch
He's Mr Grinch, so it's at least his last name (and also explains him being THE Grinch who stole christmas). It's possible that it's also his job (see "Smith"), but prefer that grinching is named after him, a la Scrooge
Grinch is s state of mind
Yes
It's his title, short for Exalted Grandiose Grinchimus Maximus de la Biblioteca.
All of the above.
it's a nickname