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water gruel

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

Noun

water gruel (countable and uncountable, plural water gruels)

  1. 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

Forms of water gruel

pluralwater gruels

Questions about water gruel

What does water gruel mean?
Water gruel means a thin food made of water cooked with a small portion of oatmeal or similar substance, sometimes seasoned with other ingredients.
What part of speech is water gruel?
Water gruel is a noun.
What is the plural of water gruel?
The plural of water gruel is water gruels.

Words near water gruel in the dictionary

  1. water girls
  2. water glass
  3. water glasses
  4. water goanna
  5. water goannas
  6. water gruel
  7. water gruels
  8. water gum
  9. water gums
  10. water gun
  11. water guns

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