different between groat vs gruel

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????t/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /????t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Etymology 1

From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-Germanic *grut?. More at grit, grout.

Noun

groat (countable and uncountable, plural groats)

1. (chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain.

Derived terms

• Embden groats

Related terms

• grit, grits
• grout, grouts
• gruel
• meal
• semolina

Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly from Middle Dutch groot, the Old French gros Tournois (“a coin of Tours”), from Medieval Latin denarius (“coin”) grossus (“large”). Related to German Groschen

Noun

groat (plural groats)

1. (archaic or historical) Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
2. A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.
3. A proverbial small sum; a whit or jot.

Translations

See also

• Groat (coin) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Argot, argot, gator, gotra

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