Bûr'gout or Bûr'go͞o, n.

noun

(bûr'go͞o), Bûr'go͞o, n. [Prov. Eng. burgood, yeast, perhaps from W. burym, yeast, and cawl, gawl, cabbage, gruel.] A kind of oat-meal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.