gruel
/ˈɡrʊəl
/noun [mass noun]
A thin liquid food of oatmeal or other meal boiled in milk or water.Their only recompense is thin gruel and some bread at the end of the day....
- Twice a day inmates receive two pieces of dry bread and weak tea; at midday they are handed a portion of soup or thin gruel.
- It was a gourmet meal compared to the thin gruel we had been living off of mostly.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French, of Germanic origin.
Rhymes
- Botswanan
- bott
- bottarga
- botte
- Botticelli, Sandro
- bottle
- bottle age
- bottle and glass
- bottle bank
- bottle bill
- bottle blond
- bottle blonde
- bottlebrush
- bottled gas
- bottle-feed
- bottle green
- bottle jack
- bottleneck
- bottleneck blues
- bottleneck guitar
- bottle-nosed dolphin
- bottlenose dolphin
- bottle-nosed whale
- bottlenose whale
- bottle-o