porridge
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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/
- (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA(key): /ˈpɑɹɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɹɪdʒ
Noun
[edit]porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)
- A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
- Eat your porridge while it's hot!
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “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, uncountable) A prison sentence.
- Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
- (rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]breakfast cereal dish — see also oatmeal
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English porridge.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]porridge m (plural porridges)
Further reading
[edit]- “porridge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English porridge.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]porridge n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit] declension of porridge (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) porridge | porridgeul |
genitive/dative | (unui) porridge | porridgeului |
vocative | porridgeule |
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