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- n. Gruel made of water and meal, flour, etc., and eaten with out milk; thin or weak gruel.
Examples
“Breakfast on water-gruel, sooner done; fills one up in a second.”
“Should I doom you to water-gruel as a dunce, would not my subsequent remorse make me want it myself as a madman?”
“Water-cresses, perhaps; or perhaps water-gruel, and water-milk; too many land-babies do so likewise.”
“Of course: and hence the fidelity to water-gruel announced a few pages back.”
“This is the batter-pudding, water-gruel of old age.”
“At Christ Church, one of our tutors was the celebrated lamented Otto Rose, who would have been a bishop under the present Government, had not an immoderate indulgence in water-gruel cut short his elegant and useful career.”
“This I know, that were I to have continued but one week more in the way I was in when I wrote the latter part of it, I should have been confined, and in straw, the next; for I now recollect, that all my distemper was returning upon me with irresistible violence — and that in spite of water-gruel and soup-meagre.”
“He wondered (he remarked parenthetically) what noodle first made it the fashion to teach women French: nothing was more improper for them; it was like feeding a rickety child on chalk and water-gruel; Caroline must give it up, and give up her cousins too: they were dangerous people.”
“What is The Good – Natured Man but a poor, water-gruel dramatic dose?”
“I eat nothing but water-gruel; am very weak; but out of all violent pain.”
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Pease Porridge Hot
List of terms for porridge dishes made from seeds, grains, legumes, etc. from around the world.
See mollusque's list More gruel?.
mush, oatmeal, frumenty, pinhead oatmeal, porridge, grits, atole, gruel, shuco, polenta, gofio, kachamak and 69 more...
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