Gruel vs. Congee — What's the Difference?

Gruel is a food consisting of some type of cereal—such as ground oats, wheat, rye or rice—boiled in water or milk. It is a thinner version of porridge that may be more often drunk rather than eaten and may not need to be cooked.

Congee or conjee ( KON-jee) is a type of rice porridge or gruel eaten in Asian countries. The word 'congee' itself is a derivation of the Tamil word கஞ்சி (kanji, IPA: [ˈkaɲdʑiː]).

A thin watery porridge.

Variant of congé.

Chiefly British Severe punishment.

A traditional Asian rice porridge.

A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.

Formal or authoritative permission to depart.

Punishment

An abrupt dismissal.

Something that lacks substance

A leave-taking.

Sentimental poetry

A formal bow.

Semen

(Architecture) A concave molding.

(transitive) To exhaust, use up, disable

Leave, formal permission for some action, :

(transitive) to punish en

(obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.

Ejaculate

(obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; originally & particularly humorously ironic abrupt dismissal without ceremony.

A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or flour in water or milk; thin porridge.

(obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.

A thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)

A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.

(archaic) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.

A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.

(archaic) To give congee, particularly

To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.

To give formal permission to do something; to license.

(archaic) To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.

(archaic) To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.

See Congé, Conge.

Boiled rice; rice gruel.

A jail; a lockup.

A Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast

Depart after obtaining formal permission;

Perform a ceremonious bow