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porridge

[ pawr-ij, por- ]

noun

  1. a food made of oatmeal, or some other meal or cereal, boiled to a thick consistency in water or milk.


porridge

/ ˈpɒrɪdʒ /

noun

  1. a dish made from oatmeal or another cereal, cooked in water or milk to a thick consistency
  2. slang.
    a term in prison (esp in the phrase do porridge )


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Other Words From

  • porridge·like adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of porridge1

1525–35; variant of earlier poddidge, akin to pottage

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Word History and Origins

Origin of porridge1

C16: variant (influenced by Middle English porray pottage) of pottage

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Example Sentences

I went to get a bag of horse manure and I make it liquid, like a porridge, and then ... bam!

There, they were presented with 40 crockpots of porridge; stacks of raisins, and piles of spoons.

Two years later, a repentant Uma wore skin-tight Versace in a meek porridge hue.

"Then I'll catch it," I said, laughing at his discomfiture, for I knew he loathed stirring porridge.

Porridge is a food which satisfies and strengthens, and which, it seems, is rich in bone-forming matter.

The room was full of healthy-looking workmen, tidily dressed and busily doing honour to the porridge and other items on the menu.

Robert Burns, who has sung of the haggis and the whisky of his native land, has only made indirect mention of porridge.

A very small bit of this chestnut grated into a kettle would make a potful of porridge.

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