stirabout
Origin of stirabout
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How to use stirabout in a sentence
Sometimes they are pounded when quite dry into a sort of meal, and with water added to them, are made into a kind of stirabout.
Popular Adventure Tales | Mayne ReidIn Derry porridge or stirabout always takes the plural: 'Have you dished them yet?'
English As We Speak It in Ireland | P. W. JoyceI went and broke the sad news to Patsey Mike, who was mixing stirabout at the time.
Oatmeal porridge or stirabout was in very general use, especially for children.
A Reading Book in Irish History | P. W. JoyceThomas Granahan, the grandfather, is seated at fire place and has evidently just finished his stirabout.
The Turn of the Road | Rutherford Mayne
British Dictionary definitions for stirabout
/ (ˈstɜːrəˌbaʊt) /
a kind of porridge orginally made in Ireland
a bustling person
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