water gruel
English
Noun
water gruel (countable and uncountable, plural water gruels)
- A thin food made of water cooked with a small portion of oatmeal or similar substance, sometimes seasoned with other ingredients. [from 15th c.]
- 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 78:
- [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 […] .
- 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 78: