Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Gruel made of water and meal, flour, etc., and eaten with out milk; thin or weak gruel.
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Examples
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Should I doom you to water-gruel as a dunce, would not my subsequent remorse make me want it myself as a madman?
Cecilia 2008
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Breakfast on water-gruel, sooner done; fills one up in a second.
Cecilia 2008
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Water-cresses, perhaps; or perhaps water-gruel, and water-milk; too many land-babies do so likewise.
The Water Babies 2007
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Of course: and hence the fidelity to water-gruel announced a few pages back.
The Virginians 2006
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This is the batter-pudding, water-gruel of old age.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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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.
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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.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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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.
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What is The Good – Natured Man but a poor, water-gruel dramatic dose?
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I eat nothing but water-gruel; am very weak; but out of all violent pain.
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