gruel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill. countable,uncountable
    — […]her own cook at South End, a young woman hired for the time, who never had been able to understand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.
  2. Punishment. countable,uncountable
  3. Something that lacks substance. countable,uncountable
    — thin gruel
  4. Sentimental poetry. US,countable,obsolete,slang,uncountable
  5. Semen. UK,countable,slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To exhaust, use up, disable. transitive
  2. To punish. transitive
  3. Ejaculate. UK,slang

词形变化

gruels plural gruels present,singular,third-person grueling US,participle,present gruelling UK,participle,present grueled US,participle,past grueled US,past gruelled UK,participle,past gruelled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词
cold gruel get one's gruel give someone his gruel gruelly water gruel gruelling
相关词
groat groats grit grits grout

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From the noun above.
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