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gurgeons

/ˈɡɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒənz/

gurgeons noun: a coarse bran flour.

Noun

gurgeons pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only) A coarse bran flour.
    • The raueled cheat therfore is generallie ſo made that out of one buſhell of meale, after two and twentie pounds of bran be ſifted and taken from it (wherevnto they ad the gurgeons that riſe from the manchet) they make thirtie cast, euerie lofe weighing eightéene ounces into the ouen and ſixteene...1587, Raphaell Holinshed, Iohn Hooker, “Of the food and diet of the Engliſh”, in The firſt and ſecond volumes of Chronicles […] , volume I, London: Henry Denham, page 169
    • You that can deal with Gudgins^([sic]), and courſe floure, / 'Tis pitie you ſhould taſte what manchet means[…]1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647...

Forms of gurgeons

alternative formgrudgeons
alternative formgrudgins

Origin of gurgeons

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

Questions about gurgeons

What does gurgeons mean?
Gurgeons means a coarse bran flour.
What part of speech is gurgeons?
Gurgeons is a noun.
How do you pronounce gurgeons?
Gurgeons is pronounced /ˈɡɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒənz/.

Words near gurgeons in the dictionary

  1. Gurewitch
  2. Gurgan
  3. Gurgaon
  4. gurge
  5. gurged
  6. gurgeons
  7. gurges
  8. gurgeses
  9. Gurghiu
  10. gurging
  11. gurgitate

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