Bread soaked in water. A word used in baby-farming establishments (French, bouillie). (Pall Mall Budget, Aug. 22, 1889.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.