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单词 water gruel
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water gruel

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Noun

water gruel (countable and uncountable, plural water gruels)

  1. 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 [] .
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