different between paddy vs gruel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pædi/
• Rhymes: -ædi

Etymology 1

From Malay padi (“paddy plant”).

Noun

paddy (plural paddies)

1. Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested. [from 17th c.]
   • 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:

     Taking out a handful of paddy the old woman exclaimed, “Look how good this paddy is! It is called Malbhog – it makes excellent puffed rice.”

2. A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown. [from 20th c.]

Translations

See also

• paddy paw

Etymology 2

English dialect paddy (“worm-eaten”).

Adjective

paddy (comparative more paddy, superlative most paddy)

1. (obsolete) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Digges to this entry?)
   • 1860, John Lothrop Motley, The United Netherlands

     Even after the expiration of four months the condition of the paddy persons continued most destitute. The English soldiers became mere barefoot starving beggars in the streets […]

Etymology 3

Possibly from Paddy (“Irishman”)

Noun

paddy (plural paddies)

1. A fit of temper; a tantrum

   throw a paddy etc.

   • 2013, Mike Brown, Adventures with Czech George (page 17)

     I like the story of the Emperor Frederick who got into a paddy with his cook, and shouted: 'I am the Emperor, and I want dumplings.'

2. (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
3. (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
4. A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:tantrum

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