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water gruels

water gruels is the plural of water gruel.

Meaning of water gruel

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

Questions about water gruels

What is water gruels the plural of?
Water gruels is the plural of water gruel.

Words near water gruels in the dictionary

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

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