English Explanatory Dictionary

gruel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.
  2. Punishment.
  3. Something that lacks substance.
  4. Sentimental poetry.
  5. Semen.
verb
  1. To exhaust, use up, disable.
  2. To punish.
  3. Ejaculate.

Pronunciation

/ˈɡɹuːəl/ /ɡɹuːl/ /ɡɹʊəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gruel.wav

Word forms

gruel gruels grueling gruelling grueled gruelled

Etymology

From Middle English gruel, gruwel, greuel, growel (“meal or flour made from beans, lentils, etc.”), from Old French gruel (“coarse meal; > French gruau”), from Medieval Latin grutellum, diminutive of Medieval Latin grutum (“flour; meal”), from a Germanic source, likely Old English grūt (“meal; grout”) or perhaps Frankish *grūt; both from Proto-Germanic *grūtiz (“ground material; grit”). Compare Dutch gruit, Middle Low German grūt, Middle High German grūz, German Grütze (“grout”). Related also to English groats, grit.

Synonyms

castigation punition chastening chastisement correction gruel punishment ejaculate spunk baby batter baby gravy balljuice boy juice cock juice cock snot come cream creme cum cumload cumshot cumwad dick juice dick milk dick snot fuckjuice girl juice jizz jism jissom knuckle children load love custard love juice mad milk man juice man milk milk muck scum seed seminal fluid skeet sperm spoof splooge spooge sprog spurt wad white pee castigate penalize amerce chasten chastise come down on correct fix someone's wagon have someone's guts for garters

Related words

groat groats grit grits grout

Derived words

cold gruel get one's gruel give someone his gruel gruelly water gruel gruelling
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