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gruelly, a.|ˈgruːəlɪ|
[f. gruel n. + -y1.]
Of the nature of or resembling gruel.
1838A. B. Granville Spas Germ. 283 It assumes a gruelly appearance. 1868F. E. Paget Lucretia xi. 47 It was no longer literature, but literary pap, soft, and passing into a gruelly consistency. 1872Earl Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley S. Sea Bubbles viii. 216 She squeezed about half a tumbler-full of the gruelly fluid into it. |