different between gruel vs grues

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

• IPA^(key): /???u?z/

Verb

grues

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

Noun

grues

1. plural of grue

Anagrams

• Ruges, surge, urges

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /???u.?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /???u.es/

Noun

grues

1. plural of grua

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??y/

Noun

grues f

1. plural of grue

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin grossus.

Adjective

grues

1. thick
2. large

Latin

Noun

gru?s

1. nominative plural of gr?s
2. accusative plural of gr?s
3. vocative plural of gr?s