cooked cereal made by boiling oatmeal
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Gruel Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
gruel
\gru"el\ (?), n. [of. gruel, f. gruau; of german origin; cf. ohg. gruzzi groats, g. grütze, as. grut. see grout.] a light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
similar words(1)
water gruel
Cawl = n. cabbage; broth, gruel; pottage
Grual = n. gruel, porridge
Mwdran = n. washbrew; gruel
Sucan = n. steeping, small beer, washbrew, gruel, flummny
Noun
1. a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)
(hypernym) porridge
(hyponym) congee, jook
Gruel Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Gruel is a food preparation consisting of some type of cereal—oat, wheat or rye flour, or rice—boiled in water or milk. It is a thinner version of porridge that may be more often drunk than eaten and need not even be cooked. Historically, gruel--often made from millet, hemp or barley, or in hard times, of chestnut flour and even the less tannic acorns of some oaks--has been a staple of the human diet, especially for peasants.
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