GRUEL
ADJECTIVES
1656 — PULMENTARIOUS made with pottage or gruel → obs.
1862 — GRUELLOUS resembling gruel; gruelly
NOUNS
1325 — PULMENT pottage, gruel → obs.
1637 — LOBLOLLY a thick gruel, stew, or gravy → Amer. dial.
1668 — CROUDY • CROWDIE • CROWDY meal and water stirred together so as to form a thick gruel → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1750 — BURGOO a thick oatmeal gruel or porridge used chiefly by seamen
1819 — BOILY a decoction of flour and milk; gruel → Eng. dial.
1819 — SKILLAGALEE • SKILLIGOLEE • SKILLOGALEE • SKILLYGALEE • SKILLYGOLEE thin, un-nourishing broth, gruel, commonly made from oatmeal, and used especially in prisons and workhouses → prison/workhouse usage
1834 — SKILLEY • SKILLY a kind of thin, watery porridge, gruel, or soup, commonly made from oatmeal, and used especially in prisons and workhouses → Amer. dial.
1880 — SKINK thin gruel (usually as a drink) → Sc. & N. Ireland
1905 — PAPES a sort of gruel made by boiling flour and water together → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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