English Dictionary

water gruel

noun

A thin food made of water cooked with a small portion of oatmeal or similar substance, sometimes seasoned with other ingredients.

I made a bowl of hot water gruel for breakfast.

意味（1）

A thin food made of water cooked with a small portion of oatmeal or similar substance, sometimes seasoned with other ingredients.

[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 […] .