1. gruel - Noun
2. gruel - Verb
A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe gruel that children's little hands have stirred Is sweeter than nectar. Thiruvalluvar
Billy coughed when the door was opened, and when he coughed he shit thin gruel. This was in accordance with the Third Law of Motion according to Sir Isaac Newton. This law tells us that for each reaction there is a reaction which is equal and opposite in direction. This can be useful in rocketry. Kurt Vonnegut
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. William Kennedy
Don't get scaled by the gruel of another. Swedish Proverb
There's no hurry, said the shoemaker, he had gruel with his awl. Swedish Proverb
There is a skill in gruel making. Scottish Proverb