Etymology

gurgeons

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Today it means: A coarse bran flour. Full definition →

Middle French grugeon
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The story

  1. Middle French · borrowed fromgrugeon“sugar lump”
  2. English todaygurgeons

Probably borrowed from Middle French grugeon (“sugar lump”), from grugier (“to laugh”).

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