water gruel

noun

A thin food made of water cooked with a small portion of oatmeal or similar substance, sometimes seasoned with other ingredients.

First used 15th c.
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Meanings

nounwater gruel (countable and uncountable, plural water gruels)

plural water gruels

  1. countableuncountableA thin food made of water cooked with a small portion of oatmeal or similar substance, sometimes seasoned with other ingredients.First known use 15th c.

    [A]t the very time when he was so very humane to poor Richardson, he absolutely suffered his own uncle and aunt to sell their beds to support them in water-gruel […].

    1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 78
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APA

water gruel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/water%20gruel

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Chicago

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