Meaning of water gruel | Babel Free

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

Examples

“[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 […].”

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