gruel

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

Verb Forms: grueled, grueling, gruels, gruelled, gruelling

To exhaust someone with difficult or demanding work.
To exhaust, use up, disable
to punish
ejaculate

Examples

The intense Scrabble tournament would GRUEL even the most seasoned players.
thin gruel

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

Words With Friends Score: 9

gruel: valid Words With Friends Word