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water gruel en · NOUN
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(countable, uncountable) A thin food made of water cooked with a small portion of oatmeal or similar substance, sometimes seasoned with other ingredients.
[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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