different between grits vs gruel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ts/
• Rhymes: -?ts

Etymology 1

See grit (etymology 2, “hulled oats”).

Noun

grits

1. plural of grit ('hulled oats')

Noun

grits

1. (Western Hemisphere) Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.

Usage notes

• Grits usually takes a plural verb, especially outside the southern US.

Related terms

• nitty-gritty
• gruel
• grout

Translations

See also

• grits on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cornmeal
• polenta

Etymology 2

See grit (Etymology 1).

Noun

grits

1. plural of grit

Verb

grits

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grit

Anagrams

• girts, grist, strig, trigs

English

Etymology 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 gr?t (“meal; grout”) or perhaps Frankish *gr?t; both from Proto-Germanic *gr?tiz (“ground material; grit”). Compare Dutch gruit, Middle Low German gr?t, Middle High German gr?z, German Grütze (“grout”). Related also to English groats, grit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?(?)l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

gruel (countable and uncountable, plural gruels)

1. A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.

   Coordinate terms: congee, oatmeal, porridge

Derived terms

• give someone his gruel

Related terms

• groat, groats
• grit, grits
• grout

Translations

Etymology 2

From the noun above.

Verb

gruel (third-person singular simple present gruels, present participle gruelling or grueling, simple past and past participle gruelled or grueled)

1. (transitive) To exhaust; use up; disable; to punish.

Derived terms

• gruelling

References

Anagrams

• Luger, gluer, luger