porridge
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Variant of pottage, influenced by porray.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
porridge (usually uncountable; plural porridges)
- A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
- A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
- Eat your porridge while it's hot!
- 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 1/1/2, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
- There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
- (British slang) A prison sentence.
- Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
Translations [edit]
breakfast cereal dish — See also translations at : oatmeal
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