porridgy

English

Alternative forms

• porridgey

Etymology

porridge +‎ -y

Adjective

porridgy (comparative more porridgy, superlative most porridgy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of porridge.
2. With porridge.
   • 1968, Thomas Hinde, High, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, published 1969, →LCCN, page 209:

     A drenched, big-chested girl, her sodden T-shirt clinging to her large breasts, led him forward by a porridgy hand, put him on the stool and sat squadgily on his lap.

   • 1976, Simon Brett, chapter 3, in So Much Blood (A Charles Paris Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 35:

     She wiped a porridgy hand on the back of her jeans, adding another streak to the existing collage.

   • 2003, Maggie Craig, chapter 25, in A Star to Steer By, London: Headline Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 218:

     Trying to get some porridge inside rather than outside of Jamie – an endeavour in which the little boy, as usual, was proving to be no help at all – Ellie grimaced. […] Jamie beamed a porridgy smile when he saw his mother.

   • 2003, Claire Rayner, chapter 14, in How Did I Get Here From There?, London: Virago Press, →ISBN, page 117:

     We were sent to change our aprons and have a break at nine-thirty, by which time I was as hollow as if I’d not eaten a vast porridgy breakfast a couple or so hours ago.

   • 2006, Imogen Parker, “July 1961”, in The Time of Our Lives, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 232:

     She scooped a spoonful of sieved porridge from the nursery bowl, and offered it to baby Adrian, who was sitting in his high chair next to her. His mouth made a very serious and deliberate O as he took the food and swilled it round his mouth. Then he smiled a lovely gummy, porridgy smile at her.

   • 2018, Nancy Tucker, “Abby”, in That Was When People Started to Worry: Windows into Unwell Minds, London: Icon Books Ltd, →ISBN:

     Porridgy breakfast-time chatter skitters up the stairs.