gruel en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ɡɹʊəl/
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈɡɹuːəl/
- /ɡɹuːl/ (also)
Etymology
From Middle English gruel, gruwel, greuel, growel (“meal or flour made from beans, lentils, etc.”), from Old French gruel (“coarse meal; > French gruau”), from Medieval Latin grutellum, diminutive of Medieval Latin grutum (“flour; meal”), from a Germanic source, likely Old English grūt (“meal; grout”) or perhaps Frankish *grūt; both from Proto-Germanic *grūtiz (“ground material; grit”). Compare Dutch gruit, Middle Low German grūt, Middle High German grūz, German Grütze (“grout”). Related also to English groats, grit.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.
[…]Father had one of his awful colds, so Dora persuaded him not to go to London, but to stay cosy and warm in the study, and she made him some gruel. She makes it better than Eliza does; Eliza's gruel is all little lumps, and when you suck them it is dry oatmeal inside.
1899, E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers:[…]her own cook at South End, a young woman hired for the time, who never had been able to understand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.
1816, Jane Austen, Emma:“It’s not that bad,” said Tiger defensively. “The foundlings rarely have to share blankets these days, and the gruel no longer has a consistency thinner than water.
2011, Jasper Fforde, Song of the Quarkbeast:
- (countable, uncountable) Punishment.
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(countable, uncountable) Something that lacks substance.
thin gruel
- (US, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable) Sentimental poetry.
- (UK, countable, slang, uncountable) Semen.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gruels | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
skilly · oatmeal · congee · porridge
Deriveds
give someone their gruel · gruelly · cold gruel · water gruel · get one's gruel · give someone his gruel
Relateds
groats · grout · grit · groat · grits
Synonyms
gruel · cream · cumload · chastisement · girl juice · man milk · spunk · mad milk · baby batter · scum · cum · cumshot · ejaculate · jism · jizz · cock snot · knuckle children · splooge · fuckjuice · man juice · come · castigation · spooge · gruel · spunk · dick milk · punition · dick juice · spoof · seed · punition · baby gravy · sperm · skeet · castigation · load · sprog · chastening · balljuice · love juice · love custard · dick snot · boy juice · ejaculate · muck · white pee · spurt · creme · milk · snot · jissom · wad · punishment · cock juice · correction · slime · seminal fluid · cumwad
Translations (55)
hu kása (thin watery porridge) · fo havrasuppa (thin watery porridge) · mi pākū (thin watery porridge) · ca farinetes (thin watery porridge) · cmn 粥 (thin watery porridge) · pl kleik (thin watery porridge) · ru ка́ша (thin watery porridge) · sq pite (thin watery porridge) · bg каша (thin watery porridge) · bn মণ্ড (thin watery porridge) · hu zabkása (oat gruel) (thin watery porridge) · ga brachán réidh (thin watery porridge) · ga brachán lom (thin watery porridge) · vi cháo đặc (thin watery porridge) · ja 粥 (thin watery porridge) · fo vellingur (thin watery porridge) · ga praiseach (thin watery porridge) · ru ка́шица (thin watery porridge) · el χυλός (thin watery porridge) · th ข้าวต้ม (thin watery porridge) · km បបរ (thin watery porridge) · bo ཐུག་པ (thin watery porridge) · az sıyıqaşı (thin watery porridge) · sv välling (thin watery porridge) · nl watergruwel (thin watery porridge) · sk kaša (thin watery porridge) · es avenate (thin watery porridge) · oc milhàs (thin watery porridge) · cy gruel (thin watery porridge) · km បបរ បាយ (thin watery porridge) · yue 粥 (thin watery porridge) · nv tóshchíín (thin watery porridge) · ba бутҡа (thin watery porridge) · nl havergort (thin watery porridge) · de Grütze (thin watery porridge) · hu pép (thin watery porridge) · ko 죽 (thin watery porridge) · az horra (thin watery porridge) · da vælling (thin watery porridge) · cmn 稀飯 /稀饭 (thin watery porridge) · ug بوتقا (thin watery porridge) · de Schleimsuppe (thin watery porridge) · kmr hewdel (thin watery porridge) · ka თხელი ფაფა (thin watery porridge) · uk ка́ша (thin watery porridge) · cs ovesná kaše (thin watery porridge) · eo kaĉo (thin watery porridge) · fi velli (thin watery porridge) · az qaşıqaşı (thin watery porridge) · tsg mistang (thin watery porridge) · az duru sıyıq (thin watery porridge) · fr gruau (thin watery porridge) · id bubur (thin watery porridge) · de Mehlsuppe (thin watery porridge) · grc ἀθάρη (thin watery porridge)