gruellyadj.
/ˈɡruːəli/ Of the nature of or resembling gruel.
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semifluid1775
sloppy1794
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custardy1824
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gruelly1838
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1838 A. B. Granville Spas Germany 283 It assumes a gruelly appearance.
1868 F. E. Paget Lucretia xi. 47 It was no longer literature, but literary pap, soft, and passing into a gruelly consistency.
1872 Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles viii. 216 She squeezed about half a tumbler-full of the gruelly fluid into it.
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