different between gruel vs grout

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

Alternative forms

• grewt, grut (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English gr?t (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?t? (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grut?. Related to grit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??a?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /???ut/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

grout (countable and uncountable, plural grouts)

1. A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
2. (now rare) Coarse meal; groats.
3. (now rare) (typically used in the plural) Dregs, sediment.
   • 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Book 1, Chapter 5

     grouts of tea

4. (Britain, obsolete) A kind of beer or ale.

Related terms

• groat
• grits
• gruel

Translations

Verb

grout (third-person singular simple present grouts, present participle grouting, simple past and past participle grouted)

1. To insert mortar between tiles.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Rutog

Dutch

Noun

grout ? (uncountable)

1. grout

Middle English

Noun

grout

1. Alternative form of growte