gruel
意味
- (湯または牛乳で料理したオートミールなどの)薄いかゆ
例文
I also brought some gruel I made. It just needs warming up.
お粥も作ってきました。チンして温めるだけですから。
Rice gruel is easy to digest.
おかゆは消化しやすいんです。
When he was young, he was so poor that he virtually had to live on gruel.
若いときは貧乏でかゆをすすって暮らした。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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.