different between gruel vs congee

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

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?nd?i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nd?i?/

Etymology 1

From Old French congié (modern congé), from Latin comme?tus (“passage, permission to leave”), from comme? (“I go and come”), from con- + me? (“I go, I pass”). Figurative senses generally borrowed from developments in French congé.

Alternative forms

• conge [16th-17th c.]
• congé [from 18th c.]

Noun

congee (plural congees)

1. Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
   1. (obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.
2. (obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figuratively) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     So courteous conge both did giue and take,
     With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.

3. (obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figuratively) any farewell.
4. (obsolete, Scotland) A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.
5. (archaic) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 96:

     So saying, he bowed with a thousand apish congês, and presented his paper to Peregrine […] .

Derived terms

• give congee
• take congee

Verb

congee (third-person singular simple present congees, present participle congeeing, simple past and past participle congeed)

1. (archaic) To give congee, (particularly)
   1. (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.
   2. (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to do something; to license.
2. (archaic) To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.
3. (archaic) To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.

Etymology 2

From Tamil ????? (kañci), via Portuguese.

Alternative forms

• conjee

Noun

congee (usually uncountable, plural congees)

1. (Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.

Synonyms

• rice porridge; rice congee (hypercorrect)
• (Chinese English): porridge

Hyponyms

• (Korean, Thai contexts): jook, juk
• (Chinese contexts): zhou

Derived terms

• rice congee

See also

• (Portuguese): canja

Translations

See also

• Thesaurus:dim sum

References

• "congee | congé, n.²" & "v." in the Oxford English Dictionary, 1891.

Anagrams

• negoce