water gravy
chiefly United States regional (now chiefly historical )
noun
A type of gravy made from meat fat, water, and (typically) flour.
- Water gravy is generally regarded as an inferior foodstuff, a cheaper alternative to milk gravy or meat..
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Satirist.
- tectonics
- tectonophysics
- tectonostratigraphic
- tectorial
- tectrices
- tectum
- Tecumseh
- milking machine
- milking parlour
- milking shed
- milking shorthorn
- milking stool
- milkish
- milk jug
- milk kinship
- milk kitchen
- milk leg
- milkless
- milk line
- milk-livered
- milk loaf
- milkmaid
- milkman
- Milk Marketing Board
- Milk Marque