water grueln.adj.

Brit.

/ˈwɔːtə ˌɡruːəl/, U.S.

/ˈwɔdər ˌɡru(ə)l/,

/ˈwɑdər ˌɡru(ə)l/

Forms: see water n. and gruel n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., gruel n.

Etymology: < water n. + gruel n.

A. n.

1. A thin liquid food of oatmeal or other meal boiled in water, sometimes with additional ingredients such as herbs, spices, or dried fruit; gruel made with water.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > gruel or broth for invalids > [noun]

gruel1362

water gruel?c1450

cullisc1460

chicken brothc1540

coulis1603

barley-milk1607

maize-cream1626

chicken water1684

barley-cream1694

thin gruel1699

viper-broth1702

wangracea1733

barley-gruel1769

beef-tea1783

conjee1789

Revalenta1848

skink1880

toast-water1905

?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 393 On water dayes sche schal ordeyne for bonnes or newe brede, water grewel.

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 116^v (MED) Þe mete þat he muste eten and vsen muste be watir growel or ellis a thesan and smal ale.

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall Ded. sig. A2^v Like a whelp that had scalded his mouth with lapping vp hotte water Grewell.

1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts i. ii. sig. B4^v Shee keepes her chamber, dines with a panada, Or water-gruell.

1667 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 100 5s., for currans and raisons, oatmell, sugar, and pruans, to make water gruell.

1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. iv. 8 So have I seen..A sick Man sipping Water-Gruel.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. iv. 54 Breakfast on water-gruel.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 74 She was glad to acquiesce, and even to go to bed, and drink water-gruel.

1840 J. Savory Compan. Med. Chest (ed. 2) 303 Water Gruel. Put a large spoonful of oatmeal, or fine Indian meal, by degrees, into a pint of water, and when smooth, boil it.

1871 A. Meadows Man. Midwifery (ed. 2) 170 The old-fashioned tea and water-gruel system has, it is to be hoped, long since ceased to be.

1900 Sc. Rev. Jan. 46 Breakfast..consisted of ‘skink’ or water-gruel, with fish, cold meat, eggs, collops or mutton.

2004 Clin. Infectious Dis. 39 472/1 In addition to or after fasting, rice, oat meal, thick semolina or water gruel..were recommended.

2. figurative. Something insipid or bland. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > weak (of immaterial things)

thin?c1225

wateryc1230

feeble1393

wash1548

waterish1549

fadea1554

limping1577

dilute1605

lank1607

languid1622

water gruel1630

invalid1635

sinewless1644

exsanguine1647

flaccid1647

diluted1681

wishy-washy1693

tiffany1694

foible1715

rickety1738

faintly1771

unrobust1775

pale1820

peely-wally1832

muscleless1841

weakling1848

weedy?1858

feeblose1882

papery1924

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > weakness of immaterial things > typical example of

water1698

water gruel1702

dilution1861

1630 T. Randolph Aristippus 8 I haue heard him sweare by his horaoctaua, that Sacke and Rosa Solis is but Water-grewell to it [sc. barly-broth].

1702 P. A. Motteux in G. Farquhar Inconstant Prol. sig. a Your Scenes of Love, so flowing, soft, and chaste, Are Water-gruel, without Salt or Taste.

1791 ‘P. Pindar’ in Analytic Rev. Nov. 328 Our Moral is not merely water-gruel—It shows that curiosity's a jewel!

1805 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 88 Nothing remains but dullness and meanness,—praise which is water-gruel, and censure which is sour small-beer.

1944 S. H. Adams Canal Town i. xxiii. 251 ‘Don't you like me as much as you did Miss Agatha?’ ‘That dish of water gruel!’ he said.

†B. adj.

Insipid, weak, characterless. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > bland or insipid

colourlessc1425

unsavouryc1449

wearish?1533

wersha1599

tasteless1603

tame1604

juiceless1620

water gruela1627

dry1632

soulless1632

frigid1643

vapid1656

insipida1684

fade1715

heartless1780

vapid1785

achromatic1799

sauceless1817

albuminous1858

antiseptic1891

flat-footed1899

unatmospheric1913

defanged1920

anodyne1933

spiceless1942

tea-party1961

nothingburger1965

a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) ii. 58 Though he [sc. a wooer] have thousands, And come with a poor Water-gruel spirit,..he shall ne'r speed.

1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 19 Their Water-gruel Jaws sunk in a Thicket of Curls, appear, for all the World like a Lark in a Soup-dish!

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 329 Had I continued it [sc. fasting] till this time, I believe my Chapters would have dissolved into a water-gruel stile.

1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 129 A pretty, sweet, smiling, flexible, insipid, water-gruel girl.

1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. v. 76 His wife,..a mere water-gruel character.

1854 A. M. Maillard Matrimonial Shipwrecks I. xiv. 134 Of love he had no conception—or, indeed, of any thing stronger than a water-gruel sort of liking.

Derivatives

ˈwater-gruelish adj. now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective]

tooma1250

beggarly1526

trumpery1576

balductum1577

skimble-skamble1598

nonsense1621

warbling1621

flim-flam1631

nonsensical1645

unsensical1692

fiddlecome1697

waffling1698

mataeological1716

flummery1749

water-gruelish1788

slip-sloppish1797

twaddling1804

twaddle1830

twaddly1841

fee-faw-fumish1846

poppycock1852

boshy1860

twaddlesome1865

moonshiny1880

cockalorum1881

tommyrotic1894

crappy1928

ballsy1942

farkakte1960

1788 R. Bage James Wallace III. 130 In short, Miss Lamounde, (but let it be a secret between you and me) she seems a little water-gruelish.

1812 Lady Lyttelton Let. 28 Apr. in Corr. (1912) v. 132 I was of the greatest use in putting in a water-gruellish sort of observation every now and then, just to fill up the pauses.

a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xi. 77 Queen Rosma, grown weary after five years of the unenterprising water-gruelish Haliartes, in 738 casts her eye on his nephew.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	water gruel
释义	water grueln.adj. Brit. /ˈwɔːtə ˌɡruːəl/, U.S. /ˈwɔdər ˌɡru(ə)l/, /ˈwɑdər ˌɡru(ə)l/ Forms: see water n. and gruel n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., gruel n. Etymology: < water n. + gruel n. A. n. 1. A thin liquid food of oatmeal or other meal boiled in water, sometimes with additional ingredients such as herbs, spices, or dried fruit; gruel made with water. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > gruel or broth for invalids > [noun] gruel1362 water gruel?c1450 cullisc1460 chicken brothc1540 coulis1603 barley-milk1607 maize-cream1626 chicken water1684 barley-cream1694 thin gruel1699 viper-broth1702 wangracea1733 barley-gruel1769 beef-tea1783 conjee1789 Revalenta1848 skink1880 toast-water1905 ?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 393 On water dayes sche schal ordeyne for bonnes or newe brede, water grewel. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 116^v (MED) Þe mete þat he muste eten and vsen muste be watir growel or ellis a thesan and smal ale. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall Ded. sig. A2^v Like a whelp that had scalded his mouth with lapping vp hotte water Grewell. 1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts i. ii. sig. B4^v Shee keepes her chamber, dines with a panada, Or water-gruell. 1667 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 100 5s., for currans and raisons, oatmell, sugar, and pruans, to make water gruell. 1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. iv. 8 So have I seen..A sick Man sipping Water-Gruel. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. iv. 54 Breakfast on water-gruel. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 74 She was glad to acquiesce, and even to go to bed, and drink water-gruel. 1840 J. Savory Compan. Med. Chest (ed. 2) 303 Water Gruel. Put a large spoonful of oatmeal, or fine Indian meal, by degrees, into a pint of water, and when smooth, boil it. 1871 A. Meadows Man. Midwifery (ed. 2) 170 The old-fashioned tea and water-gruel system has, it is to be hoped, long since ceased to be. 1900 Sc. Rev. Jan. 46 Breakfast..consisted of ‘skink’ or water-gruel, with fish, cold meat, eggs, collops or mutton. 2004 Clin. Infectious Dis. 39 472/1 In addition to or after fasting, rice, oat meal, thick semolina or water gruel..were recommended. 2. figurative. Something insipid or bland. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > weak (of immaterial things) thin?c1225 wateryc1230 feeble1393 wash1548 waterish1549 fadea1554 limping1577 dilute1605 lank1607 languid1622 water gruel1630 invalid1635 sinewless1644 exsanguine1647 flaccid1647 diluted1681 wishy-washy1693 tiffany1694 foible1715 rickety1738 faintly1771 unrobust1775 pale1820 peely-wally1832 muscleless1841 weakling1848 weedy?1858 feeblose1882 papery1924 the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > weakness of immaterial things > typical example of water1698 water gruel1702 dilution1861 1630 T. Randolph Aristippus 8 I haue heard him sweare by his horaoctaua, that Sacke and Rosa Solis is but Water-grewell to it [sc. barly-broth]. 1702 P. A. Motteux in G. Farquhar Inconstant Prol. sig. a Your Scenes of Love, so flowing, soft, and chaste, Are Water-gruel, without Salt or Taste. 1791 ‘P. Pindar’ in Analytic Rev. Nov. 328 Our Moral is not merely water-gruel—It shows that curiosity's a jewel! 1805 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 88 Nothing remains but dullness and meanness,—praise which is water-gruel, and censure which is sour small-beer. 1944 S. H. Adams Canal Town i. xxiii. 251 ‘Don't you like me as much as you did Miss Agatha?’ ‘That dish of water gruel!’ he said. †B. adj. Insipid, weak, characterless. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > bland or insipid colourlessc1425 unsavouryc1449 wearish?1533 wersha1599 tasteless1603 tame1604 juiceless1620 water gruela1627 dry1632 soulless1632 frigid1643 vapid1656 insipida1684 fade1715 heartless1780 vapid1785 achromatic1799 sauceless1817 albuminous1858 antiseptic1891 flat-footed1899 unatmospheric1913 defanged1920 anodyne1933 spiceless1942 tea-party1961 nothingburger1965 a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) ii. 58 Though he [sc. a wooer] have thousands, And come with a poor Water-gruel spirit,..he shall ne'r speed. 1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 19 Their Water-gruel Jaws sunk in a Thicket of Curls, appear, for all the World like a Lark in a Soup-dish! a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 329 Had I continued it [sc. fasting] till this time, I believe my Chapters would have dissolved into a water-gruel stile. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 129 A pretty, sweet, smiling, flexible, insipid, water-gruel girl. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. v. 76 His wife,..a mere water-gruel character. 1854 A. M. Maillard Matrimonial Shipwrecks I. xiv. 134 Of love he had no conception—or, indeed, of any thing stronger than a water-gruel sort of liking. Derivatives ˈwater-gruelish adj. now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective] tooma1250 beggarly1526 trumpery1576 balductum1577 skimble-skamble1598 nonsense1621 warbling1621 flim-flam1631 nonsensical1645 unsensical1692 fiddlecome1697 waffling1698 mataeological1716 flummery1749 water-gruelish1788 slip-sloppish1797 twaddling1804 twaddle1830 twaddly1841 fee-faw-fumish1846 poppycock1852 boshy1860 twaddlesome1865 moonshiny1880 cockalorum1881 tommyrotic1894 crappy1928 ballsy1942 farkakte1960 1788 R. Bage James Wallace III. 130 In short, Miss Lamounde, (but let it be a secret between you and me) she seems a little water-gruelish. 1812 Lady Lyttelton Let. 28 Apr. in Corr. (1912) v. 132 I was of the greatest use in putting in a water-gruellish sort of observation every now and then, just to fill up the pauses. a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xi. 77 Queen Rosma, grown weary after five years of the unenterprising water-gruelish Haliartes, in 738 casts her eye on his nephew. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.?c1450
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