gruel

Meanings

Plural: gruels

Noun

a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)
A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.
Punishment
Something that lacks substance
Sentimental poetry
Semen

Verb

To exhaust, use up, disable
to punish
ejaculate

Origin / Etymology

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 grūt (“meal; grout”) or perhaps Frankish *grūt; both from Proto-Germanic *grūtiz (“ground material; grit”). Compare Dutch gruit, Middle Low German grūt, Middle High German grūz, German Grütze (“grout”). Related also to English groats, grit.

Scrabble Score: 6

gruel is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
gruel is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gruel is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

gruel is a valid Words With Friends word